Servlet on tomacr5.0.7

Question

hi,
i am starter,i am facing problem running my servlet on tomcat..
in lib directory i could find only servlet-api.jar...instead of servlet.jar
so,what are the changes i would have to make in my Classpath .
Could anyone tell the steps to run servlet on tomcat5.0.7
I would be very thankfull.
Bye
Venkata

Answer 1

take a look at the helloworldexample.java under tomcat directory
webapps/servlet-examples/WEB-INF/classes
to see how the jsp servlets was written,
and then use your normal text editor to study web.xml in the WEB-INF directory stated earlier
do take note of the following minimal servlet mapping xml tags given by me on how to get the servlet working. I will not go into more detail on how to get the rest of the servlet working ,I want you to explore for yourself and get back to me whether you got the servlet going or not as this is part of the learing curve and experience and also the joy of getting a successful servlet programme
<?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>your Servlet 2.4 Examples</display-name>
<description>
Servlet 2.4 Examples.
</description>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldExample</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloWorldExample</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldExample</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/your path/HelloWorldExample</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Thanks