DD Doubt....

[Pooja Shankar]

<servlet>
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.whatever.myServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/my/test/firstPage</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Here we are mapping a url-pattern to the class in the <servlet-name> element, ie. on typing http://....../my/test/firstPage we get the myServletClass invoked. but to account for the following.(/my/test/*)
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/my/test/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Thanx in Advance.
[ April 02, 2005: Message edited by: Pooja Sharma ]

[Jose Esteban]

Sorry, but what's your question?

[Mishra Anshu]

<servlet-mapping> 
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name> 
<url-pattern>/my/test/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping> 
  

Sorry, your question was not clear.
But, if you want to know what this mapping means, then it is simply
going to invoke the servlet1 if any url-pattern (such as http://whatever/
my/test/'whatever')is requested.

One common example for it is, the Action Controller Servlet (Which is made to be invoked for all the requset matching a particular pattern, commonly all the requests for a particular web application...but not necessarily..)

[Pooja Shankar]

Mishra Anshu ,
Thanx I got the answer.
Pooja
[ April 03, 2005: Message edited by: Pooja Sharma ]

[James Christian]

I think she wanted to know which rule takes precedence. The order is

1) EXACT-MATCH
2) DIRECTORY-MATCH
3) EXTENSION-MATCH