Doubt Regarding Web.xml

[Nittin singla]

Suppose i am working on some large application including thousands of servlets. Do i need to write each of these in the Deployment Descriptor file(Web.xml)?? Isnt there some shortcut to it?

[Martyn Clark]

Which version of Servlets are you using if you use 3.0 you can configure mappings with annotations :-)

[Nittin singla]

No...I am using the older version...

[elvadas nono]

Oups, I think with older version you should put all sevlet instances that the container should load in the deployment descriptors.
With servlet 3.0 API you can use Annotations, Web Fragments to reduce web.xml size,
you can also add servlet programmatically using new feartures of servletContext addServlet( String name, String class) etc..

[Hussein Baghdadi]

A better solution could be using a MVC web framework like Struts2, Spring MVC, Stripes or FrontMan.

[Bear Bibeault]

Please read this article for information on a patter that can help.