Embedded Tomcat 5.5 return 404 for all request

Question

I am starting embedded tomcat within a Java application, but it returns 404 when i request a existing static content html file. I have no idea why is that and there is no service using the port. Please advise.
File structures are as follow:
base directory: D:\AXIS
directory with index.html - D:\AXIS\webapps\root\
other existing dir
D:\AXIS\webapps\root\WEB-INF\lib\
D:\AXIS\webapps\root\WEB-INF\
debug level is set to 5 and following is the response of log screen when i request http://localhost:7070/index.html :
Command> HttpProcessor[7070][3] An incoming request is being assigned
HttpProcessor[7070][3] The incoming request has been awaited
HttpProcessor[7070][3] parseConnection: address=/127.0.0.1, port=7070
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Normalized: '/index.html' to '/index.html'
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Request is 'GET' for '/index.html' with protocol 'HTTP/1.1'
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header accept = */*
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header accept-language = en-us
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Adding locale 'en_US'
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header accept-encoding = gzip, deflate
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header user-agent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header host = localhost:7070
HttpProcessor[7070][3] Header connection = Keep-Alive
StandardEngine[null]: Mapping server name 'localhost'
StandardEngine[null]: Trying a direct match
StandardHost[localhost]: Mapping request URI '/index.html'
StandardHost[localhost]: Trying the longest context path prefix
StandardHost[localhost]: Mapped to context ''
StandardContext[]: Mapping contextPath='' with requestURI='/index.html' and relativeURI='/index.html'
StandardContext[]: Decoded relativeURI='/index.html'
StandardContext[]: Trying exact match
StandardContext[]: Trying prefix match
StandardContext[]: Trying extension match
StandardContext[]: Trying default match
HttpProcessor[7070][3] parseConnection: address=/127.0.0.1, port=7070
Following is server start code.
public class EmbeddedTomcat {
private String path = null;
private Embedded embedded = null;
private Host host = null;
* Default Constructor
public EmbeddedTomcat() {
* Basic Accessor setting the value of the context path
* @param path - the path
public void setPath(String path) {
this.path = path;
* Basic Accessor returning the value of the context path
* @return - the context path
public String getPath() {
return path;
* This method Starts the Tomcat server.
public void startTomcat() throws Exception {
Engine engine = null;
// Set the home directory
System.setProperty("catalina.home", getPath());
System.setProperty("catalina.base", getPath());
// Create an embedded server
embedded = new Embedded();
// print all log statments to standard error
embedded.setDebug(99);
embedded.setLogger(new SystemOutLogger());
// Create an engine
engine = embedded.createEngine();
     engine.setDefaultHost("localhost");
// Create a default virtual host
host = embedded.createHost("localhost", getPath() + "/webapps");
     engine.addChild(host);
// Create the ROOT context
Context context = embedded.createContext("", getPath() + "/webapps/root");
     System.out.println("Doc Base - " + context.getDocBase());
     host.addChild(context);
// Install the assembled container hierarchy
embedded.addEngine(engine);
// Assemble and install a default HTTP connector
Connector connector = embedded.createConnector(null, 7070, false);
embedded.addConnector(connector);
// Start the embedded server
embedded.start();
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
EmbeddedTomcat tomcat = new EmbeddedTomcat();
tomcat.setPath("D:/AXIS");
     tomcat.startTomcat();
catch( Exception e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
Thanks is advance,
Jerry

Answer 1

in the reource tag u have somet hing called global attribute which will be ur global jndi name with which u can access the resource
Context ...>
<ResourceLink name="The name of the linked global resource in the global JNDI context.
global="The name of the resource link to be created, relative to the java:comp/env context.
type="The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web application when it performs a lookup for this resource link.
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i think tat will work
regards
shanu
</Context>