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Error instantiating the servlet class

 
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Hello,
I boque on a simple servlet that I can not invoke, with appal of a JSP page. I have tried everything :
- parameters of the web.xml
- JSP

here is my code:

1/ servlet


2/ Web.xml



3/ my JSP



Error 500

 
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: webcart.WebCartServlet


In which directory is the WebCartServlet.class file?
 
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in /src/webcart/WebCartServlet
 
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may be a language error:
1 / us
2 / fr
 
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Philippe Ponceblanc wrote:in /src/webcart/WebCartServlet


The .class file is in the source folder?
 
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no, in the package webcart
 
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When you deploy this to Tomcat, what folder is the .class file in?
 
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eclipse == /src/webcart/WebCartServlet.class
 
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Philippe Ponceblanc wrote:no, in the package webcart


Well, "src" is clearly a source directory, is it not?

Regardless, the class file needs to be inside WEB-INF/classes/webcart; is that where it is? Or is it in a jar file that contains all your classes? If so, that would go into WEB-INF/lib
 
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Philippe Ponceblanc wrote:eclipse == /src/webcart/WebCartServlet.class



That's not Tomcat.
That's your IDE.

How are you deploying your web application to Tomcat?
Also, what Tomcat is it?  Is it embedded as part of Eclipse or standalone?
 
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Dave Tolls wrote:

Philippe Ponceblanc wrote:eclipse == /src/webcart/WebCartServlet.class



That's not Tomcat.
That's your IDE.

How are you deploying your web application to Tomcat?
Also, what Tomcat is it?  Is it embedded as part of Eclipse or standalone?



These are the important questions. You need to understand what a WAR is and how it is used.
 
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I'm using tomcat 8.5, I generated a project as follows:

WEB-INF / classes / WebCart / WebCartServlet.java

likewise I added the jsp and the web.xml

now I have a 404 error!
 
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WEB-INF / classes / WebCart / WebCartServlet.java


Two problems:

1) The package name is "webcart", not "WebCart".

2) That's where WebCartServlet.class should be, not WebCartServlet.java.
 
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hello ;

i have :

project -Web-INF/classes
               - webcart
                    - Cart.java
                    - WebCartServlet.java
          - Meta-INF
              - context.xml
         - WEB-INF
               - classes
                 -  webcart
                    - Cart.java
                    -WebCartServelet.java
              - panier.jsp
              - web.xml
         
 
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A source file does no good in WEB-INF/classes - that's were the class file needs to be.
 
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Tim Moores wrote:A source file does no good in WEB-INF/classes - that's were the class file needs to be.



I follow a certification EE java, but it is this exercise that is imposed.
It starts in this form previously written.
how can i edit my .class files instead of .java
 
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No editing - you compile the .java file which results in a .class file. The IDE does that for you, but it's possible it doesn't put the class files where they need to be. But after compilation they should be somewhere in the project folder, provided there were no errors.
 
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Tim Moores wrote:No editing - you compile the .java file which results in a .class file. The IDE does that for you, but it's possible it doesn't put the class files where they need to be. But after compilation they should be somewhere in the project folder, provided there were no errors.




I have no more error after compiling with Tomcat, I can not find the files.class!
Should you add a "target" directory for the tomcat?
to generate .class files in the "target" directory?
 
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No, you must build a WAR and deploy the WAR to Tomcat.

You're trying to let your IDE (Eclipse) do all the thinking for you. If you understood how Java webapps and webapp servers work, you could make everything work without using Eclipse at all.

In fact, you have to do so in the Real World. No sane IT shop is going to run an IDE on a production server machine.
 
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Hello,
I installed my project in the webapps directory of tomcat,
I have trouble understanding between the compile command and the deployment in tomcat my directory is "/opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.34/webapps/fun/exo103/".
at the moment my servlet does not display a JSp page via the doGet method, but I have a 404 error!

how to differentiate the command >> javac myservlet
how to deploy in tomcat >> catalina
 
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First, you don't install the "project" into Tomcat. As I said, Eclipse is not going to be around on a production Tomcat server. You only install the WAR into Tomcat. Tomcat doesn't care about and cannot use Eclipse projects. Or IntelliJ projects. Or Netbeans projects. et cetera.

The WAR can be in the form of a WAR file or an unzipped ("exploded") WAR. By default, Tomcat will take WAR files found in the Tomcat webapps directory and explode them into directories having the same base name as the WAR file's name. So mywebapp.war explodes to directory "mywebapp" and the webapp's URL context name would be "/mywebapp".

You cannot deploy WARs into sub-directories of the webapps directory. Only into the webapps directory itself. Tomcat would treat a file named TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/fun/exo103/myjsp.jsp as being deployed in the webapp whose context name was "fun" and the JSP would be accessible via the URL http://localhost:8080/fun/exo101/myjsp.jsp". It would not see that as a webapp named "exo101" - exo101 would simply be seen as a subdirectory of the "fun" webapp.
 
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I left my first project here is the picture:



Here are my different code of the image:










now i would like to understand what url i have to put to make appear the page JSP == panier.jsp.

Then compremdre the mechanism of the javabean Cart.java and my servlet WebCartServlet.java.

The project is an e-commerce site with a basket to fill!
I do not ask that the have given me the site ready in hand, but only the filling of the basket, so that I assimilate this redundant structure!
 
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Ouch! My eyes! Screenshots are hard to read.

You cannot get panier.jsp using that directory layout. Nothing under the WEB-INF directory of a WAR can be accessed via a URL.

You have to move panier.jsp to the root of the WAR.

However, those screenshots don't tell us anything about the WAR, only about your IDE.

If you are using Maven to build a WAR, the place to put panier.jsp in the source project would be under its src/main/webapp directory. Maven will copy src/main/webapp's contents to the root of the WAR that it produces.
 
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