My sun-web.xml file doesn't seem to be getting processed.

I've made another topic in this forum because my pre-compiled JSPs are not working but I think that I may have found the root of that problem, and it is this...
My sun-web.xml file does not seem to be getting processed (run?) by the web server. I have this theory because I made some changes to it that should have caused an error as the server starts up, but there was nothing. For example, I added some random text as a tag that should have been an error, and there was none.
Now, I did the same thing in my web.xml file, and sure enough, there was an error on start up. So, this coupled with the fact that my "use-precompiled" property seems not to be working makes me think that the sun-web.xml file is not being used by the sever.
Is there anything I need to do other than drop it in the /WEB-INF directory with the web.xml file?
Thanks.

It might be possible that the extra tags in sun-web.xml are just ignored (ie. not validated). I have seen cases where this has occurred.
A simple test you should perform is to enable some obvious setting in sun-web.xml, and see if that takes effect. Ex.
<sun-web-app>
<session-config>
<session-manager persistence-type="mmap"/>
</session-config>
</sun-web-app>
During startup time the logs should indicate that the persistence type has been set to MMAP. Like the following:
[02/Nov/2005:20:21:25] info (12566): WEB3006: Initializing MMapSession Manager to hold a maximum of (1,000) sessions, each of which can store a maximum of (10) values each about (4,096) bytes size, with a timeout value of (1,800) seconds; please ensure that this configuration fits total size of the serialized byte stream of all the attributes of a session

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please guide...

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If this doesn't work, it's a bug in the container. You may want to upgrade to a later version of Tomcat; 4.0.6 is ancient, and may very well be buggy in this area.

Web.xml file not being read

Hello, I did a quick search but could not find an answer to my specific problem. (this is also my first night tackling servlets) i hope this hasnt been answered before. here goes...
i'm using Tomcat 4.1 and this is my file structure where i put my servlets:<intstall dir>/webappps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/TestPackage.
this is my code for the servlet
package TestPackage;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
/** Example using servlet initialization. Here the message
* to print and the number of times the message should be
* repeated is taken from the init parameters.
public class ShowMessage extends HttpServlet
     private String message;
     private String defaultMessage = "No message.";
     private int repeats = 1;
     public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException
          //Always call super.init
          super.init(config);
          message = config.getInitParameter("message");
          if (message == null)
               message = defaultMessage;
          try
               String repeatString = config.getInitParameter("repeats");
               repeats = Integer.parseInt(repeatString);
          catch(NumberFormatException nfe)
               //do nothing
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws
                                        ServletException, IOException
          response.setContentType("text/html");
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          String title = "The ShowMessage Servlet";
          out.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 " +
                           "Transitional//EN\">\n" +
                           "<HTML>\n" +
                         "<body bgcolor=\"#FDF5E6\">\n" +
                         "<h1 align=center>" + title + "</h1>");
          for(int i=0; i<repeats; i++)
               out.println(message + "<br>");
          out.println("</body></html>");
}my web.xml file is in <intstall dir>/webappps/ROOT/WEB-INF. it looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<display-name>Welcome to Tomcat</display-name>
<description>
     Welcome to Tomcat
</description>
<servlet>
      <servlet-name>
        ShowMsg
      </servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>
        TestPackage.ShowMessage
      </servlet-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>
          message
        </param-name>
        <param-value>
          Shibboleth
        </param-value>
      </init-param>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>
          repeats
        </param-name>
        <param-value>
          5
        </param-value>
      </init-param>
</servlet>
</web-app>when i access the servlet i get "No message" one time which is the default message. Any ideas as to why its not picking up the init parameters. I've restarted my laptop and started and stopped Tomcat a few times and i always get the default message...i also tried ShowMessage in replace of ShowMsg as the <servlet-name>, to no avail. I also tried removing the package name in the <servlet-class>, still nothing. Is there another web.xml file some where else that i need to update?
Thanks! (sorry for the long code)
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The doGet method works if you are sending data from a form using get method. It is better to use service method.

My sun-web.xml file doesn't seem to be getting processed.

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