Missing something simple

Question

Hello All:
I am new to Jdeveloper and have a simple question. First I create a new web project, then a new servlet and static HTML page within the same project. I then modify the static html page to post to the servlet. When I execute the test the browser comes back with a "File not found" message. Is there some registration process for the servlet that I need to perform in order to call it from a static HTML page? I followed examples found on this web site and there wasn't any mention of this that I could tell.

Answer 1

You'd surely be better off going through some documentation offline / online of creating, registering and using servlets.
You have to have 2 entries in the web.xml for the servlet like shown below
Assume that index.java is the servlet's source file and its in the web context's root directory
<servlet>
<servlet-name>index</servlet-name>
<display-name>index</display-name>
<description>No Description</description>
<servlet-class>index</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>index</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
hope this helps