index page in jsp

[Jenn Person]

Trying to make a long story short, I'm making a web application where a user can log in, and upon doing so their name would be printed on the page while they traverse throughout the rest of the application. I'm doing this using the MVC pattern. I'd like to make this jsp page my index.

But I know that when a user enters my page URL for example http://www.myWebApp.com the browser will search for an index.html or default.html file. Is there a way I can set my index to a jsp file??

[Ben Souther]

In your web.xml file, create a welcome-file-list node:

  <welcome-file-list id="WelcomeFileList_1">
      <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
      <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
   </welcome-file-list>

Put it between the mime-mapping element and the error page mapping if you're using a pre-2.4 spec compliant container.

[Paul Clapham]

Okay. And what's stopping you from getting one?