Accessing Servlets in Browser

Question

Hi all
I am new to servlets and till now everything went well but one thing! :)
I am trying to access a servlet I did through the browser. When I added the servlet class to the ROOT/WEB-INF/classes dir I could access the servlet by typing http://localhost:8080/servlet/HelloWorld such that HelloWorld is the name of the class. This all went ok and I accessed the servlet with success.
Now I wanted to put my servlet in another directory. I created a dir called my-servlets under the dir webapps of TomCat 5.
Inside I created a dir WEB-INF. In the web.xml file I specified the servlet HelloWorld and the mapping. If I try to access the servlet in the browser through the mapping it works fine.
But if I do http://localhost:8080/my-servlets/HelloWorld and HelloWorld is the name of the class I get an error: The requested resource is not available.
My question is: If I have my servlet in another dir than the ROOT I cannot access it through the class name? Or am I doing something wrong?
With best regards,

Answer 1

Try
http://localhost:8080/my-servlets/servlet/HelloServlet
The /servlet/ is a key to a special handler that loads servlets rather than a directory that holds servlet classes.
Also, make sure that you didn't stuff HelloServlet into a package. If you did, you'll either need a url-mapping in the web.xml file or a fully-qualified classname in the url.
For example, if HelloServlet is in 'mypackage', you'd use:
http://localhost:8080/my-servlets/servlet/mypackage.HelloServlet