Servlet Mapping not working

[Ron Ingram]

I need to use servlet mapping for the jsp form and I cannot get it working, nor can I figure out why. It is a requirement to use the form action tag exactly as-is

JSP

<form action="servlet/edu.vt.cs5244.EnrollmentAdmin">

//Input fields hidden due to JR error of exceeding 80 characters

</form>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>EnrollmentAdmin</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>edu.vt.cs5244.EnrollmentAdmin</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>EnrollmentAdmin</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/servlet/edu.vt.cs5244.EnrollmentAdmin</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Servlet Name: EnrollmentAdmin.java stored in the edu.vt.cs5244 package

[Bear Bibeault]

First of all, why are you using the package structure for the mapping? Bad idea and a possible security issue.

Secondly, your URL as specified in the form action does not match the mapping.

And finally, you should be prefixing the action URL with the web app's context path.

[Ron Ingram]

Thanks. The form action is a requirement to use it exactly as-is.. so I cannot change it to a better practice.

The url in the web.xml mapping must begin with "/". When I match it exactly with the form action "servlet/edu.vt.cs5244.EnrollmentAdmin", netbeans throws an error as shown below:

Invalid URL Pattern: [servlet/edu.vt.cs5244.EnrollmentAdmin]. 
See the server log for details.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

[Ron Ingram]

It appears my issue is not the mapping after all but an error in the servlet..

Thanks again..