Calling a servlet from a JSP page using the J2EE reference implementation

Question

I have a JSP with an include tag as follows: <jsp:include page="servlet/ConnectionServlet" flush="true" />
When I use JRUN it works fine. I created an ear file and ported
the application to the J2EE reference implementation. When running the app under the J2EE reference implementation the ConnectionServlet is never called. I figured it must a deployment issue. I tried adding the ConnectionServlet.class file to the WEB-INF\classes file as servlet\ConnectionServlet.class but the JSP still can't find the servlet. Any ideas where I've gone wrong? TIA, Joe

Answer 1

I have a JSP with an include tag as follows:
<jsp:include page="servlet/ConnectionServlet"
flush="true" />Basically, WEB-INF/classes gets added to the classpath, so the directory structure under this folder should be identical to your package structure. If the ConnectionServlet.class is not actually in a package, then it should be directly in WEB-INF/classes (ie if "servlet" isn't actually the name of your package, don't use a WEB-INF/classes/servlet/" directory).
Then try taking out the "servlet" from your include tag, so you just have page="/ConnectionServlet" (not sure about the leading slash - try experimenting!)
if this doesn't work, try adding this to your WEB-INF/web.xml file:
<web-app><!-- the web-app tags may already be there - don't add more -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>ConnectionServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>your.full.package.here.ConnectionServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ConnectionServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/ConnectionServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Good Luck!