Gaurav,
Using the <welcome-file-list> is the right approach if you want Tomcat to look for a file other than default index.html file. The <welcome-file-list> allows you to specify more than just one default file using at least one or more <welcome-file> tags. For example, using the following entries, Tomcat will look for index.jsp first and if it can't find that, it'll look for welcome.jsp.
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>welcome.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
Be sure to place the <welcome-file> tags within the <welcome-file-list> to list your entries. Consult sun's dtd at
http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd if you're not sure where to place the tags within the DD.
-Marlon
[ April 21, 2002: Message edited by: Marlon Bravo ]