How to call a servlet from a browser

[matteo depasquali]

Hello everybody,
I hope all of you understand my poor english; after solving many problems by reading this forum, i've just signed up, and this is my first question

I'd like to know how to call a servlet by using a URL.
Now i'm able to call the servlet this way

http://localhost:8080/servlet/provaservlet/index.html

beacuse i set my web.xml this way

<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>

Is there a way to call my servlet by using its name, for instance http://localhost:8080/servlet/provaservlet/ServletName?

I set the <url-pattern> element with everythings come to me, but i didn't get my goal yet!

[Pyla Rao]

Hi

Welcome to coderanch.

use following code may it solves

<url-pattern>/ServletName</url-pattern> 

you can give url in url pattern then it matches respective servlet using web.xml. It is basic thing about servlets.

[gurunath pai]

Here ServletName is nothing but the URL-pattern, which you have defined in web.xml of application. Container internally calls the Servlet which is mapped to URL-pattern. You need go through some J2EE tutorial, best book would be Head first servlets and Jsp.

http://localhost:8080/servlet/provaservlet/ServletName

[matteo depasquali]

Thank you, now it works.
The correct url is http://localhost:8080/projectFolder/url-pattern and not http://localhost:8080/servlet/projectFolder/url-pattern

Reading guides and articles i often saw the folder called "servlet", and i thought it was necessary to tell tomcat that i was calling a servlet.

Actually, in the example i read on the internet, the folder called "servlet", was the name of the web project

[Bear Bibeault]

This is why it's important to use good names. "servlet" as the name of a web app is very poor and confusing, as you have discovered.