deploying an application

[caleb momanyi]

hi all
I have created a new web project in netbeans and I am using glassfish server 3.x
the project name is myProject
how can I get my project name to display in the address bar of my browser when I click run. ie instead of

localhost:8080/web/

I want it to display,

localhost:8080/myProject

the problem is that when I try to deploy a different application to glassfish I get an error that there is already an application deployed at that place of deployment. I wish there was an error message ti report but as yall can see this is just something I am overlooking. please help soon. thenks

[Dave Elwood]

how are you writing the web app?

are you using the javaee libraries and glassfish server?

You've got to do some mapping.

I am writing stuff like that now and I found that after Tomcat 4 you need to add some extra stuff to the web.xml file when writing the app.

look at this one.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<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"> 

    <servlet>
	<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
	<servlet-class>Servlet1</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

<!-- This is necessary, changed in Tomcat 4.* -->
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/Servlet1</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/dogfood</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

if you call localhost:8080/Servlet1, this calls a goodie by the name of test and the goodie by the name of test is actually a servlet class called Servlet1
if you call localhost:8080/dogfood, this calls a goodie by the name of test and the goodie by the name of test is actually a servlet class called Servlet1

url-patterns leads to servlet-name which leads to servlet-class.

hope it helps

[caleb momanyi]

finally got the solution here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11853901/context-path-for-web-application-on-glassfish-3-1-2-2