Multiple Servlet Configuration in web.xml

[Supraja Kannaiyan]

How to configure multiple Servlets in web.xml.Bcoz i am getting an error like

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "web-app" must match
"(icon?,display-name?,description?,distributable?,context-param*,servlet*,servl
t-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welcome-file-list?,error-page*,taglib*
resource-ref*,security-constraint*,login-config?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-
ef*)".
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(U
known Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown
ource)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement
Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentConten
Dispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(U
known Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextC
nfig.java:282)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:6
9)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConf
g.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Lifecyc
eSupport.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:
587)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:36
)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:
97)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:21
0)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcce
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)

[Raghavan Muthu]

You can very well do it with individual <servlet> and its appropriate <servlet-mapping> elements.

By looking at the error, i could presume you may NOT have properly nested or closed the xml elements in the web.xml file. Just recheck the web.xml file.

If you have an XML-aware editor like XMLSpy or something, try to open the xml file in that editor. That may help.

[Deepak Bala]

Are you able to open the XML in IE or firefox ? That will check if the XML is well formed. You can map each servlet to a URL pattern using the method mentioned above.

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

The validation of the web.xml is failing.Check the web.xml's DTD to find the exact structure of the xml that the container is expecting.

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Supraja Kannaiyan:
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