Problem with first servlet

Question

Hi
I am trying to run my first servlet HelloWorld
I have my servlet in the directory
Tomcat 4.1/webapps/test/web-inf/classes/HelloWorld.class
and my web.xml file in the directory
Tomcat 4.1/webapps/test/web-inf/web.xml
contains the following lines
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloWorld</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/HelloWorld</url-pattern>
</web-app>
I also have changed the conf/server.xml file for the context as follows
     <Context path="/test" docBase="test" debug="0"
reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
and now when I try http://localhost:8080/test/servlet/HelloWorld
Still I am getting the error status 404 The requested resource /test/servlet/HelloWorld not found.
What am I doing wrong ????
When I put my HelloWorld.class file in the webapps/examples directory it runs fine.WHy is it so ?
Also for the above I have not started my tomcat server since I tried to run my HelloWorld from examples using http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/HelloWorld it works perfect so I think I do not need to start server.
Please reply me

Answer 1

Try fully qualifying your servlet-class so that it reads something like this: <servlet-class>examples.servlet.HelloWorld</servlet-class>