Question1:
I am very new to
Java servlet and trying to learn deploying .war
1. /test/WEB-INF/classes/aa.java
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class aa extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<h1>Hello Servlet Examples</h1>");
}
}
2. /test/WEB-INF/web.xml file
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>aa</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>aa</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>aa</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/aa</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
3. I made simple /test/index.html file i.e.
<a href=/servlet/aa>Hello</a>
4. cd <
tomcat home>/webapps/test/
jar -cvf ss.war *
5. started tomcat
http://127.0.0.1:7070/ss index.html appeared but when I clicked the link<a href=/servlet/aa>Hello</a> it says:
HTTP Status 404 - /servlet/aa
Please Note: when I copy pasted index.html and WEB-INF in ROOT then it works fine
Question2:
if we have to put our html files in httpdocs (apache) and Java files in tomcat then:
will we just put WEB-INF folder in .war file. right?
Thanks & best regards