WEB.Xml

[Lucky Chawla]

Hi all
I have a small doubt, If I make a new "myapp" folder in tomcat,s eebapps directory ,And the all the necessary directories are in the myapp directory according to my container,s directory structure.
Now if built a simple html and placed it in myapp directory , My question is that to run this simple html page do i have to modify my web.xml or is ti necessary that web .sml should be there with following form

web.xml:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>

</web-app>

Thanks

[Jeroen T Wenting]

you don't need a WEB-INF directory nor a web.xml at all to run purely static content.

Having an eebapps directory isn't going to help though, unless you modify Tomcat's own configuration to look for content there.

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
you don't need a WEB-INF directory nor a web.xml at all to run purely static content.

Not true.
Tomcat won't consider your directory to be a webapp unless it sees a WEB-INF directory.

It is true that you can deploy a webapp without a web.xml file though.
It is also true that you will want one if you're writing anything more than a few trivial JSPs.