Apache Tomcat 4 error - cant fine a servlet

Question

Hi,
I have a web.xml file that defines classes and url patterns fine. For some reason though, which I cant work out, even when I add the following to web.xml, Tomcat says it cant find the requested resourse.
http://localhost:8080/servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket
<servlet>
<servlet-name>SimpleShoppingBasket</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>SimpleShoppingBasket</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SimpleShoppingBasket</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The error displayed is:
HTTP Status 404 - /servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket
type Status report
message /servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket
description The requested resource (/servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
Every other servlet I have runs fine except this one. I have checked the spelling of the class and it is correct. I am nearing my wits end!
Please help! What could be wrong? Is there a cache that I can delete somewhere maybe?

Answer 1

Try putting the servlet class into a package. There could be access problems with it being in the "unnamed" package
Check the tomcat logs for any errors that servlet may be creating ([TOMCAT]/logs directory)
Also is your web app installed in the ROOT directory or in its own context?
If in its own context then the url would be http://localhost:8080/mycontext/servlet/SimpleShoppingBasket
What do the other (working) servlet definitions look like?
How are they different from this one?