Invoking a Servlet

[B Crosthwaite]

Hi Everyone,

I have Tomcat 6.0.18 installed on my Mac 10.5.5 system. What i am tring to do is simply invoke a servlet.

What i have done to this point is place my class.file in:
~/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes

and to view the servlet i put in the browser address bar:
http://blockedcontent/servlet/MyServlet

Now, i have been told that this is no longer the way to invoke a servlet and i also need to declare and map my servlet in the web.xml file (deployment descriptor)

Please could someone point me in the correct direction.

Thanks,
-Ben

[Amit Ghorpade]

The answer to your question is general, you need to understand the basic concepts of deployment for this. Here is the link to find out. If you have a book on the subject, just go to the index, look for deployment jump there.

Anyways I found this topic is a version of this topic .

So moving this one. Please paste all your servlets questions in the servlets forum. Read this to know why this is important.

Hope this helps

[Bear Bibeault]

Please continue any discussion in your original post on this topic.