Where to place Servlets in Tomcat 4.0?

I just recently installed Tomcat on Win2000 and came across a little problem.
What is the directory in Tomcat 4.0 to place servlets in?
They seem to work fine if they are in 'examples' or in a package within the 'examples'-folder but they do not seem to work from ROOT or WEB-INF.
I tried creating a 'classes'-folder inside of 'WEB-INF'.
I have been trying to invoke them e.g. like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/servlet/test4.HelloWorldExample (where test4 is the package name)
I have re-started Tomcat everytime after changing something.
Where do you normally keep your servlets and how do you view them?
I would greatly appreciate a couple of real life examples.
Thanks in advance.

Are you sure that Tomcat is running properly? First
try http://localhost:8080
That should give you a Tomcat default page; otherwise you might have to check your classpath.
I just recently installed Tomcat on Win2000 and came
across a little problem.
What is the directory in Tomcat 4.0 to place servlets
in?
They seem to work fine if they are in 'examples' or in
a package within the 'examples'-folder but they do not
seem to work from ROOT or WEB-INF.
I tried creating a 'classes'-folder inside of
'WEB-INF'.
I have been trying to invoke them e.g. like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/servlet/test4.HelloWorldExample
(where test4 is the package name)
I have re-started Tomcat everytime after changing
something.
Where do you normally keep your servlets and how do
you view them?
I would greatly appreciate a couple of real life
examples.
Thanks in advance.

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