The requested resource (/review/HelloServlet) is not available

[Elsy Mena]

Hello,

I am starting with servlets, jsp and Tomcat.

I am trying to complete a simple HelloServlet example.

I have Tomcat 6.0.18 and the relevant java. I can view the Tomcat main page from http://localhost:8080/

I created the directory structure:

C:\Tomcat\webapps\review\WEB-INF\classes

I have a web.xml file under the WEB-INF directory:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">

<display-name>Welcome to Tomcat</display-name>
<description>
Welcome to Tomcat
</description>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/review</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>




I have a HelloServlet.java file in the classes folder. I compiled it, and it worked fine.

However, when I try to view the page http://localhost:8080/review/HelloServlet it displays:

type Status report

message /review/HelloServlet

description The requested resource (/review/HelloServlet) is not available.


I don't know why, if I have my web.xml file with the descriptions needed to the servlet. May I did a mistake with the pathname? or there is something else missing?

Thank you very much.

[Bauke Scholtz]

At quick glance I see two mistakes:
1) Classes ought to be placed in packages. There are circumstances wherein packageless servlets work, but you should never make your application dependent on that. That's a bad practice.
2) url-pattern is relative to the context root. So with this configuration your servlet is effectively to be accessed as http://localhost:8080/review/review

I'd to say, go through a decent JSP/Servlet tutorial or book. This all is namely fairly trivial.

[Elsy Mena]

Thank you very much Bauke, it worked with http://localhost:8080/review/review

I did not used a package because it was a little example, but I usually put my classes into packages. Do you know a good JSP/Servlet tutorial or book?


Thank you again.

[Bauke Scholtz]

Head First Servlets & JSP.

[Elsy Mena]

Thank you very much