Not able to run servlet in tomcat

[Senthil Kumar]

Hi,
This is my servlet code

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;

class FirstServlet extends HttpServlet
{
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException,IOException
{

PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter();
pw.println("<br> Welcome Mr.</br>");
pw.close();
}
}
i put this class file WEB-INF\classes .when i am trying to invoke the servlet it throws the following exception.

javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class FirstServlet
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:868)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:663)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


root cause

java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper can not access a member of class FirstServlet with modifiers ""
sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:65)
java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:344)
java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:868)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:663)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

[Christophe Verré]

Make your class public:
public class FirstServlet extends HttpServlet

[Ulf Dittmer]

Try to make it "public class FirstServlet", not "class FirstServlet".

[Senthil Kumar]

thanks it works now