why we need to provide alias naming to the servlet in web.xml

[saikrishna cinux]

hello,
we map the actual url patter to alias naming
why we need to do that?
apart from security is ther any strong reason?

[jeff marsh]

I think, there is not any strong reason for url-pattern, except security.
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1) But you can refer to the given name so you need nt to write full path for the file.
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2) If you want your jsp to be treated as servlet, you need to define the pattern for that.

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-Jeff

[Chetan Parekh]

We have an application where IIS is a Web Server and WebLogic 6.2 is an Application Server. We are forwarding all request received by IIS for .jsp page to WebLogic for the processing.

Now we got a situation where HTML page (whose request is being serve by IIS) has a form and action of the form is a Servlet (whose request need to be server by WebLogic).

But since IIS-to-Weblogic request forward mechanism forward only requests of .jsp pages to WebLogic and Servlet doesn�t have any extension, we mapped Servlet as .jsp page.
[ September 15, 2006: Message edited by: Chetan Parekh ]

[Ben Souther]

See this linke for a full explaination:
http://faq.javaranch.com/view?InvokerServlet

[saikrishna cinux]

Originally posted by jeff marsh:
I think, there is not any strong reason for url-pattern, except security.
<br><br>
1) But you can refer to the given name so you need nt to write full path for the file.
<br>
2) If you want your jsp to be treated as servlet, you need to define the pattern for that.

<br><br><br><br>
-Jeff

ok how we provide security by keeping alias naming to the servlet
anyway the servlet is in the private folder so no one can access it then what is the use of aliasing the servlet name and how do we benifit by providing security?