url-pattern

[shuzo monsoon]

Hello everyone. I have tried to deploy a simple example servlet that I have used from a book, on the Tomcat server. The servlet compiles fine, is placed in the WEB-INF/classes folder under the directory as specified in the example - i.e. classes/com/wrox/servlets/ and is called ExampleServlet. I have also then specified this servlet in the web.xml file as the following -
<servlet>
<servlet-name>ExampleServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.wrox.servlets.ExampleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ExampleServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Example/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
This code I also used straight out of the book. However, when I try to run open the servlet in the browser, I get an error message stating - Error allocating a servlet instance and also an error saying No ClassDefFoundError.
Can anyone help??
Thans.

[shuzo monsoon]

One more thing I have just noticed is when I start Tomcat, the console window states - Illegal argument exception: Invalid <url-pattern> ExampleServlet in servlet mapping. Hope this can help identify the problem.

[Craig Jackson]

I can't see anything wrong with the snippet of code. I would suggest you verify that your Deployment Descriptor is valid(.i.e spelling) by checking that all elements have closing tags and are in the correct order.
Craig.

[Dragos Haiduc]

try using this as your url pattern:
<url-pattern>/Example</url-pattern>

[danny liu]

After reading your code, I think it is correct.
I wonder if there is Example folder beneath your application folder.

Dan