Originally posted by William Brogden:
How is this application defined in your web.xml?
I'm not sure what exactly do you mean with "defined", but I'll try to describe it to you:
I'm working with Netbeans IDE 3.5.1.
In case you haven't used Netbeans before, it has an internal server which is Tomcat 4.0.6. When you start a new web application Netbeans automatically creates a web module with a suitable directory structure. Then it sets in the internal server's "server.xml" config file a default context. For example, the default context for the project I'm working on is:
The "WORKING_WEB_MODULE" is the name of my root directory.
Then in the application's web.xml (deployment descriptor) it sets just <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> tags whenever you create a new servlet, as well as
<session-config> tags. These are the default tags in web.xml.
Apart from these, I added some other <servlet-mapping> tags such as
Does this make any sense to you?
I really appreciate your help
Dimitris