Entries in Web.xml file

[Padmaja Prasad]

Hi,
I'm facing trouble in starting the tomcat when I include more than one servlet in the web.xml file. But everything is working fine when I work with a sigle servlet. Can anyone help me what are the mandatory tags to be included in the web.xml file & their order??
Thanks in advance...
Kala Prasad

[Mike Curwen]

We need more information first.

What version of Tomcat? 3.x or 4.x ?

And your own code always helps, so post us the appropriate section of your web.xml (NOT the whole thing).

Also, the layout and requirements for web.xml are clearly layed out in both the DTD, and the example web.xml file in the examples/WEB-INF directory.

The DTD is your best place for information though, which can be found:
2.2 spec: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd
2.3 spec: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd

[Padmaja Prasad]

I'm sorry..I forgot to mention the version. I'm using Tomcat v4.x.
my web.xml file looke like this:

 <web-app> 
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Search</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>Search</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<display-name>Hello, World Application</display-name>
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>HWS</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>HWS</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Search</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/Search</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping> 
  <servlet-mapping><servlet-name>HWS</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/HWS</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app> 

when I start the Tomcat I receive the following error messages:

Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.0.1
PARSE error at line 27 column 11
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "web-app" must match"(icon?,display-name?,description?,
distributable?,context-param*,filter*,filter-mapping*,listener*,servlet*,servlet-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welco
me-file-list?,error-page*,taglib*,resource-env-ref*,resource-ref*,security-const
raint*,login-config?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-ref*,ejb-local-ref*)".
Starting service Tomcat-Apache
Apache Tomcat/4.0.1

[ January 15, 2002: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]
[ January 15, 2002: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]

[Mike Curwen]

The clue is in the error message. You have something out of place, and the listing it gives you should tell you what it is.

But the answer is:
move the display-name element to the top. ie: it cannot be between two servlet elements

[Padmaja Prasad]

Mike,
Thanks a lot... Its working fine now..
Thx
Kala