Running Servlets Using Tomcat

[brinker]

Hi all,

I am very new to the forum, but I have been programming in Java for years. I have the most weird problem running my own servlets in Tomcat. I believe that I have installed the Tomcat program correctly because there are no errors and I can run the example servlet applications provided. However, I cannot run my own servlet classes.

My own classes are placed in the c:\tomcat\webapps\proj1\WEB-INF\classes\ directory. It appears that Tomcat 4.1.27 cannot locate this project on its own even if I use the : localhost:8080/proj1/servlet/name.class syntax in a web browser. This approach is fine for the example files. I was wondering if anybody out there has had a similar problem and if so, I would be grateful if you tell me how to resolve it.

** I should mention that I have defined JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME, and CLASSPATH.

thanks

Narjit

 

[sedj]

You know what, I had the exact same problem !!! Its daft - been using Tomcat for a few years now. I couldn't get it to work for toffee !!!

In the end, I downloaded JWSDP from Sun (

http://java.sun.com/webservices/

), which is basically Tomcat, with some bundled XML APIs like JAXP,JAXM, SAAJ etc. This worked fine. If I remeber correctly, version 1.1 comes with Tomcat 4.1x and version 1.2 comes with Tomcat 5 ...

Let us know if you ever solved the errors ...

 

[obadare]

if your web.xml contains the servlets, your browser should be poited to

http://localhost:8080/proj1/servletName

,servletname being the url-pattern in your web.xml