Problem in deploying a servlet

[Jignesh Gohel]

Hello ,

I am having an problem in deploying a servlet.
Its like i have created the following directory structure in my tomact's webapps directory:

servletAPI/WEB-INF/classes/basicServlets/BasicServlet.class

My BasicServlet.java is in the package named 'basicServlets'.

Now when i am executing the following URL in the address bar:

http://localhost:8080/servletAPI/servlet/basicServlets.BasicServlet

the tomcat is displaying an error message that the resource is not available.

But when i am putting the same basicServlets/BasicServlet.class in the

examples/WEB-INF/classes/basicServlets/BasicServlet.class

it is getting executed exactly.

So could anybody please tell me what might be the problem with my

servletAPI/WEB-INF/classes/basicServlets/BasicServlet.class

directory structure.

Thanking you,
Jignesh

[Ben Souther]

The servlets-example app uses an invoker servlet.
The global invoker has been disabled in all but the oldest versions of Tomcat.
You can read why here: http://faq.javaranch.com/view?InvokerServlet

Mapping a servlet is very easy.

 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"</a>
    version="2.4">                                                                                                                   
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>BasicServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>basicServlets.BasicServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>                                                                                                                   
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>BasicServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/BasicServlet</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
</web-app>
 

Try using that as your deployment descriptor (web.xml).

Then access your servlet with the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/servletAPI/BasicServlet