Problems calling servlet at startup

[Dave Mere]

Hi there,

I'm setting up an embedded database with my struts app, which works by creating a local database copy on startup. To do this, I need to place the relevant code in a servlet that is called on tomcat start-up, but I'm having problems calling this file.

I've set the servlet-classs in my web.xml like this:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>data</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.kew.alpine.datalayer.DataLayerServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
 
but I get this error in the log:
[CODE]javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class org.kew.alpine.datalayer.DataLayerServlet or a class it depends on    

I thought that this entry was sufficient but obviously not. Can anyone spot what I might be doing wrong?

Many thanks in advance!

Dave

[Ben Souther]

Where did you put the class file.

[Dave Mere]

Hi Ben,

It compiles to
classes/org/kew/alpine/datalayer.

My build.xml file then copies this to
WEB-INF/classes/org/kew/alpine/datalayer which is where tomcat reads it from. I have a number of other class files in there which run as I expect them to. The init file just doesn't seem to be running on startup.

thanks

Dave

[Dave Mere]

Wait, I got it.

My class was called DatalayerServlet

My web.xml was declaring DataLayerServlet

Only took me an hour to spot that. :roll:


Thanks for looking at this Ben!

[Ben Souther]

Glad it's working.