Issue in eclipse regarding packages and servlets

[akaash singh]

Hi

I using eclipse . I created a Dynamic Web project . I put the servlets inside packages in the source folder and the html and JSPs in the web content folder. I am not able to add two servlets with the same name inside different packages . A prompt is thrown saying that a servlet with name already exists ?

Why is it so ? Shouldn't I be able to add two servlets with the same name as long as I put them in different packages ?

Also suppose I create a servlet "servA" iniside a package named "p1" . I have to specify the servA in the action attribute of some jsp . How do i specify it ?

- as action ="p1.servA" (this did not work)
or
- simply as : action="servA" ( this worked)

Why is it so ? Isn't the first way correct ?

Are these issues related to eclipse ?

Thanks and Regards
Akash

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

akaash singh wrote:- as action ="p1.servA" (this did not work)
or
- simply as : action="servA" ( this worked)

This refers to the Servlet and URL mapping in your web.xml file and not the class name directly.

akaash singh wrote:
Why is it so ? Shouldn't I be able to add two servlets with the same name as long as I put them in different packages ?

Why would you need to have Servlets with the same name? Servlets are used as controllers for processing your requests.

[Bear Bibeault]

Please be sure to ask IDE questions in the IDEs forum. I have moved this post there for you.

[Prakash Mani - Attur]

you cannot name two servlets with same name as long as the servlet class has public midifier...also you cannot remove the public modifier for servlet since your servlet been called by the container..

[akaash singh]

But that's that's whole purpose of packages that two packages can have classes of same name as without conflict. And of course its possible if we don't use an IDE. Is this a eclipse specific thing ?

[akaash singh]

akaash singh wrote:
Why is it so ? Shouldn't I be able to add two servlets with the same name as long as I put them in different packages ?

Why would you need to have Servlets with the same name? Servlets are used as controllers for processing your requests.

Suppose I create two servlets with the same name in different packages and the actual package to be used depends on some condition . I know this isn't a very good example but cooked it up just for the sake of an example .