case 1)--------------------------------------------
1) C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\BeerV1\form1.html
<html>
<body>
<form method="GET" action = "/BeerV1/Select.do">
color:
<select name="color" size="1" >
<option>light
<option>amber
<option>brown
<option>red
</select>
<input type="SUBMIT">
</form>
</body>
</html>
2)C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\BeerV1\WEB-INF\web.xml
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>SelectBeer</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>example1.SelectBeer</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SelectBeer</servlet-name>
<uri-pattern>/BeerV1/Select.do</uri-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
3) C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\BeerV1\WEB-INF\classes\example1\SelectBeer.class
package example1;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SelectBeer extends HttpServlet
{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req , HttpServletResponse res) throws
IOException,ServletException
{
res.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
out.println("hi vaishoo");
}
}
Error: 404
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case 2)
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Now if i try same example under jsp-examples it is working
1)C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\jsp-examples\form2.html
2)C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\jsp-examples\WEB-INF\web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>SelectBeer</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>example1.SelectBeer</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SelectBeer</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/SelectBeer</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
3)C:\tomcat\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\jsp-examples\WEB-INF\classes\example1\SelectBeer.class
No error
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so my question is
is there anything missing in my own web.xml as i mention in case 1
or any mistake in mapping that servlet?
or any other reason?