Mapping logical names to a servlet class file

Hello sir,
I am a student, new to jsp servlets and was going through the book Head first jsp servlets , where it told that in a html if there is a form saying <form method="post" action="SelectBeer.do" then the browser prepends "/beer-v1" and makes the final url something like "/beer-v1/SelectBeer.do" because that's where the client request is coming from. i.e. the "SelectBeer.do" in the html is relative to the url of the page it is on.
Now I want to ask that say if the file structure in tomcat is something like
WEB-CONTENT
|____________________________JSP
|..................................................|________________________PAGE1.JSP
|..................................................|________________________PAGE2.JSP
|
|____________________________HTML
|..................................................|________________________PAGE3.HTML
|..................................................|________________________PAGE4.HTML
|
|____________________________CLASSES
|.................................................|________________________SERVLET1.CLASS
And if a html form is on page "PAGE1.JSP" AND WANTS TO GO TO "PAGE3.JSP" or to "SERVLET1.CLASS"Then what relative url should be given in form action method.
Thanks in advance

You can use '..' to go 'up' a level in the structure.
So if you are currently on page http://localhost:8080/myApp/JSP/PAGE1.JSP
page2 --> page2.jsp
page3 --> ../html/page3.html or /myApp/html/page3.html
servlets are different because they are not directly accessed by their location on disk, but rather by url mappings in the web.xml file.
One other trick to watch out for in this is that the name of the web application - the 'context', also forms part of the url (in my example I called it myApp).
You need to include the context path in absolute urls from the client (for loading scripts/images etc)
You do NOT use the context path in absolute urls from the server - ie those used with the RequestDispatcher, because the RequestDispatcher treats the context as the root, while your web browser has a different idea.
So you would use <jsp:forward page="/jsp/page1.jsp"/> to forward to a page, but link for a link to it from another page.
cheers,
evnafets

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