Main servlet controller which handle every dynamic request

Question

          Hello
          first of all, I experiments on weblogic 6 sp1
          I'd like to set in my webapplication a central servlet which will handle every
          dynamic call(every servlet). But I would like that it does not handle the static
          files (.gif, .pdf...)
          I used the <servlet-mapping> facilities in my web.xml file with the following
          value <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>, but in that case my servlet receive every
          request.
          In fact if my application context is "webapp", I would like to set a mecanism
          which route the following URL to my servlet :
          http://host:port/webapp
          http://host:port/webapp/whatever
          http://host:port/webapp/whatever?param1=value1
          but not these one
          http://host:port/webapp/file.gif
          http://host:port/webapp/file.pdf
          Thank you for your help
          

Answer 1

You do not remove exceptions. You fix the cause of the exception.
You said, it is caused by the Class#forName() call on the MySQL JDBC driver class? Is it a ClassNotFoundException? If so, then put the MySQL JDBC driver class in the classpath. It is available in the MySQL Connector/J JAR file which you can download from the manfacturer's website.