pointing to second project's class file in first project's web.xml

[prateek sharmaa]

Hi all,
This question may sound stupid but I am stuck at it.

I have two projects in my workspace.
(1) core
(2) web

I have created a servlet in core project with name ShowDashboardServlet.java
In my web project I want to configure web.xml to point to TestServlet.java

Below mapping is done in web project's web.xml.

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>ShowDashboardServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.servlet.ShowDashboardServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ShowDashboardServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/dashboard/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

I want to do this because we want the URL to look like /web/dashboard/myproject and not /core/dashboard/myproject
and I can not put the servlet in web project as there are no servlet related jars available and few more jars that I use in the servlet are missing in web project.

so my restriction is that i need to keep the servlet in core folder and need to configure it in web project.

can I do this?

[Devaka Cooray]

prateek sharmaa wrote:
so my restriction is that i need to keep the servlet in core folder and need to configure it in web project. can I do this?

No, unless you bundle all required dependencies of the core project in to a jar file and use it in the web project. I don't see what you are trying to accomplish with this sort of architecture. If you can elaborate your real need, we can be more helpful.

[Bear Bibeault]

It just sounds like a bad design all around. You should take a few steps back and reevaluate this approach.