There is a web.xml in the "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF" directory.
This is what I have in web.xml
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmln: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>
I have the following code in BeerSelect.java and is placed in "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web" directory. The BeerSelect.class file is also present in this directory.
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> Wants beer color "+ c);
}
}
This is the code in form.html
<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>