hi guys i m jay and i m so new to servlet just started about 6 7 days before....
first i was successfully able to run servlet in xp... but now i sometimes get error 500 and sometimes i get error 404...
i m trying first simple helloworld.java example whish is in c:\program files\apache-tomcat-7.0.39\webapps\root
i compiled it and copied its .class file in c:\program files\apache-tomcat-7.0.39\webapps\root\WEB_INF\classes
the "classes" subdirectory in WEB-INF was not ther in but i made it as per i was instructed to do...
CODING is as below
helloworld.java
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class helloworld extends HttpServlet
{
private String message;
public void init() throws ServletException
{
//message="hello world";
}
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException, IOException
{
res.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
out.println("<h1>helloworld</h1>");
}
public void destroy()
{
}
}
web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>helloworld</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>Helloworld</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>helloworld</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/helloworld</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
please please help me quickly i m having xams soon... and more importantly i want to learn this thing deeply... ne good book to learn servlets deeply in your mind??? please share it .. thanks in advance.