servlet-mapping doesn't do its job?

[Garrett Smith]

Is the container ignoring my servlet mapping?

<servlet>
        <servlet-name>blojsom</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.blojsom.servlet.BlojsomServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>smtp-server</param-name>
            <param-value>localhost</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
 
... 
 
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>blojsom</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/news/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

ERROR TP-Processor37 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[dhtmlkitchen.com].[/].[jsp] - Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: <a href="http://dhtmlkitchen.com/news/?page=categories" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://dhtmlkitchen.com/news/?page=categories</a>
 

I can't explain why the error is thrown. How could the container ignore the servlet-mapping? Could it be a Tomcat configuration issue?

Running on Tomcat 6.

[Ben Souther]

Do you have the full stack trace.

Configuration (mapping) errors don't usually result in FileNotFoundExceptions.

Are you doing any file I/O in your servlet?