Newcommer To Servlets!

[mateen dar]

hi i am a new commer to serlets. i created a simple servlet that displays a line of text. i placed in the webapps/root directory of tomcat. but when i use internet exlorer to see the address localhost:8080/HitServlet its says tje resource isnt ready yet. am using tomcat server 5.5 . what is the probrem. i placed a simple jsp with html in the same folder and the result was ok. the example servlets are also running ok. do i have to create a web app to use servlets. please help. thanks in anticipation.

[Annie Smith]

Did you create the servlet mapping in the web.xml?

[mateen dar]

i did'nt do anything. i just complied the java file in placed in the webapps directory. i am studying core servlets and java server pages. i did exactly what it said. though it is using a older version of tomcat. could u tell me what i have to do . thanks.

[Bhavin Sanghani]

Hi Mateen,

You require mapping entry in web.xml. From there actually tomcat will find ur source file and will generate class file. add follwing tag properly in web.xml by editing ur servlet-name and other entries...

<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldExample</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloWorldExample</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldExample</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/HelloWorldExample</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


HTH

bhavin

[mateen dar]

could u explain how and where to place the web.xml file. my servelt is based on a file called HitServlet.class . i place this in a directory class say FirstServlet that is in the webapps directory of tomcat. now do i place the hitservlet.class directly into the FirstServlet folder, and add the web.xmml u described before to this folder or what. thanks

[Annie Smith]

Your web.xml should be in the WEB-INF directory inside your particular webapp dir. The classes should go in WEB-INF/classes with a proper directory structure conforming to the packages for the classes.

[Annie Smith]

I would suggest you to read some tutorial first. That would be easier for you to start!

Try http://www.coreservlets.com

[mateen dar]

hi this is the content of my web.xml file


<?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 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>us.souther.simple.SimpleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/first</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


</web-app>

the FirstServlet folder is in the webapps directory. and the claases are just as in the file.

now when i run http://localhost:8080/first i get an error . what am i
doing wrong. the directory structure is

/webapps/FirstServlet
/webapps/FirstServet/WEB_INF/classes
/webapps/FirstServet/WEB_INF/web.xml

[kanchi panneer]

<?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 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>us.souther.simple.SimpleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/first</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


</web-app>


Here in the servlet class tag of servlet attribute give only as simpleservlet. The change is

<?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 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>SimpleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FirstServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/first</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


</web-app>

[Annie Smith]

Originally posted by mateen dar:
the FirstServlet folder is in the webapps directory. and the claases are just as in the file.

now when i run http://localhost:8080/first i get an error . what am i
doing wrong. the directory structure is

/webapps/FirstServlet

You should use the url http://localhost:8080/FirstServlet/first . Your FirstServlet is the webapp directory and it needs to be in the URL. If you would have placed the files in root, the URL would have worked.

[mateen dar]

thanks. it worked. all that fuss about printing hello world. thanks alot.