General question.

[Rohit Kelkar]

1. Will a servlet mapping
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>reportServlet<servlet-name>
<url-pattern>report</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
work for http://www.something.com/report?
2. Will a servlet mapping
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>reportServlet<servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/report/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
ever be useful?
Haven't tried them.

[Vedhas Pitkar]

Hi,
I think the first one wont work while the second one will work.I also didnt try it out,am a bit lazy ,I guess.

[Rohit Kelkar]

Can you suggest a example for the 2nd one?
I can't think of one.

[R K Singh]

http://www.yourDomainName.com/yourServletContext/report/someURI should call *reportServlet*
CMIW

[Rohit Kelkar]

Tried both of them and both of the mappings did work. I cannot think of any explaination why those worked !!!

[yi zhu]

The first one does not work (with Tomcat)!