Errror in deploying servlet: wrong name: TestServlet

[akshay ranganath]

Hi,

I am learning Servlets. I created a servlet called TestServlet in a class akshay.

The URL for the servlet is http://localhost:8080/Test/testServlet?name=aaa&password=aaa

The deployment structure looks like:
webapps/WEB-INF/classes/akshay/TestServlet.class

The Web.xml has the following lines:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "file:C:\Java\web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>testServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>akshay.TestServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>testServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/testServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

I got this error:

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: akshay/TestServlet (wrong name: TestServlet)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1634)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:860)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1307)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

Could you please help me out in resolving this?

Thanks,
Akshay

[pawank gupta]

akshay is ur class of ur package. if it is a class then how could u run the servlet. a servlet is independent class

[Gadi Reddy]

Check your classs name and servlet-name.

[David O'Meara]

This is a problem with the way you have set up your package and compiled the class. Make sure the class is declared 'package akshay;' at the start, and make sure it is compiled as askay/TestServlet.java and not just TestServlet.java

[Ben Souther]

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[akshay ranganath]

Thanks a lot for the help...
The problem turned out to be something else altogether - I was using eclipse for development/compiling. There seems to be a strange error in it.

Unless I save a file and then re-compile, it is not detecting the changes, even though "Build Automatically" option was set. When I started to this, the problem got resolved.