PDF serving

Question

Serving a file
I'm having trouble serving a PDF file from a server to the user.
I've used iText to generate a PDF file (by completing an AcroForm with info from a database) which now resides on an absolute path.
I've used BalusC's tutorial for fileserving.
Everything is working properly, except that clicking on downloading the file doesn't bring anything.
Here is my code:
The jsp from which you click to download the file has (and filename is valid and reading properly):
<h:outputLink value="file?name=#{ProjectsManager.filename}">
    <h:outputText value="download #{ProjectsManager.filename}" />
</h:outputLink>my web.xml mappings for the fileservlet:
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>File Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>beans.FileServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>File Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/file/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>I've left the web.xml as is besides the class reference.
Are there any other properties I should modify or no? What is the purpose of the url-pattern?
Here is the beginning of my FileServlet.java:
public class FileServlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws IOException
        String filePath = "/Users/Alex/iText/PDF/gen/";
        String fileName = request.getParameter("name");The error I'm getting is:
type Status report
message /06_proj_01/pages/design/file
description The requested resource (/06_proj_01/pages/design/file) is not available.
Thanks

Answer 1

Sorry about that, where would I find the complete request URI?
That link points to:
http://localhost:8080/06_proj_01/faces/pages/design/
This is a more complete web.xml
  <!-- servlet -->
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
   <servlet>
    <servlet-name>File Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>beans.FileServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <!-- servlet-mapping -->
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>File Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/file/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>Thanks