Servlet deployment in 9i AS

Question

while running the makeit.bat file in $ORACLE_HOME\javavm\demo\demo\examples\servlets\basic\helloworld\makeit.bat
i got an error
/scottRoot/contexts/default is not a Servlet Context
can u pls help how to solve this ?

Answer 1

Alright, first your servlet class file (NOT the sourcefile) has to be copied to the WEB-INF/classes directory of your webapplication. Be sure to put in the correct subdirectories according to the package (so a com.myapp package would go in WEB-INF/classes/com/myapp).
Second step: the servlet has to be mapped in your WEB-INF/web.xml file. The things to add are:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Myservlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myapp.Myservlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Myservlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Myservlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>And do this for all your servlets. Now inside your application your com.myapp.Myservlet servlet is known as "Myservlet". If you would want to forward to it, you would forward to "/Myservlet".
The url-pattern tells Tomcat when to invoke your servlet and on which context path. When your url is something like http://localhost:8080/myapp/Myservlet (where myapp is your webapp name), the Myservlet servlet will get invoked. It won't if you put something like http://localhost:8080/myapp/subdir/Myservlet, then the url-pattern should have been:
<url-pattern> /subdir/Myservlet</url-pattern>If you don't understand all that I suggest you find a good servlet tutorial on the net. There are loads of them.