is WEB-INF and web-inf same??

[Biren shah]

hi in deploying an application..
if my web application is named as webmail and i have two directories like this..

webmail/WEB-INF/classes
and webmail/web-inf/jsp
then can i put my jsp's in web-inf/jsp package..
and can my client directly call those jsp's???

does tomcat and other web-servers are case-sensitive to the package structure or not???`

[Christophe Verré]

It is case-sensitive, as stated in the spec, since requests are matched to resource mappings in a case-sensitive manner. Do not create two directories like this, you're calling for troubles.

[salil verma]

Client can not access any of the resources existing in WEB-INF

[salil verma]

Client can not access any of the resources existing in WEB-INF directory. So only put those jsp files of resources to which you want to use in the application but do not want to let the client use it directly.

[Yi Yuan]

What operation system do you use ?
If yours is Microsoft Windows, you aren't able to create these two folders "webmail/WEB-INF" & "webmail/web-inf" at the same time.