can any body tell how to call servlet withot using web.xml

[vijayakumar durai]

i am using eclipse.i have Login servlet in default package i have called servlet from login form

<form name="frmlogin" method="get" action="http://localhost:8080/servlet/Login">
my project name is OnlineCourseRegistration

it show error httpresource is not available
i called like this this also not working

<form name="frmlogin" method="get" action="http://localhost:8080/OnlineCourseRegistration/Login">

it show error http resource is not available


thanks in advance

[Ulf Dittmer]

You need a web.xml file to declare the servlet names and classes. Any decent servlet tutorial explains how to do that.

[ujjwal soni]

Hi,

You cannot execute a servlet without web.xml, configuration for servlet must be there so that the container is able to execute it.

[vijayakumar durai]

i have web.xml in my application suppose if i didn,t mention servlet name and classes in web.xml can I able to call servlet?

[Ulf Dittmer]

No.

[ujjwal soni]

But why you want to do this ?

[vijayakumar durai]

thanks friends just i want to know

[Tim Holloway]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:No.

It's considered a security risk. If you like security risks, call Bill Gates. Java was expressly defined to minimize security issues.

[David Newton]

 <form name="frmlogin" method="get" action="http://localhost:8080/OnlineCourseRegistration/Login"> 

You probably don't want to include the host/port information in the form's "action" attribute, by the way.

[William Brogden]

Back in the beginning of servlets somebody created the Invoker servlet. With the invoker active you had the appearance of servlet classes in the default package being called without a web.xml entry. This was an illusion because the invoker was really getting the request first - as configured in web.xml.

This was supposed to make it easier for newcomers to experiment with servlets without getting into web.xml but it has proved to be a disaster and caused much more confusion than web.xml ever did.

Bill