I'm trying to get a
servlet to work and I'm having some issues. I have the following form.html in the C:\tomcat\webapps\Beer-v1\ directory:
<html><body>
<h1 align="center>Beer Selection Page</h1>
<form method="POST"
action="SelectBeer.do">
Select beer characteristics<p>
Color:
<select name="color" size="1">
<option value="light"> light </option>
<option value="amber"> amber </option>
<option value="brown"> brown </option>
<option value="dark"> dark </option>
</select>
<br><br>
<center>
<input type="SUBMIT">
</center>
</form></body></html>
I have the following DD (web.xml) file in the following directory: C:\tomcat\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\ directory:
<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/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.example.web.BeerSelect</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SelectBeer.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Here is my source code:
package com.example.web;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class BeerSelect extends HttpServlet {
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("Beer Selection Advice<br>");
String c = request.getParameter("color");
out.println("<br>Go beer color " +c);
}
}
I put the BeerSelect.class file in the following directory:
C:\tomcat\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web\ directory.
When I bring up the URL
http://localhost:8080/Beer-v1/form.html my page displays correctly but when I click on the submit button the servlet doesn't work. I suspect it can't find it but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I've installed
tomcat in the C:\tomcat directory.
Any Ideas why this isn't working?
