Servlet page can't run

Question

Hello buddies,
I am very new with servlet. I encountered some problems during browsing my frist servlet for my personal testing.
I am using Apache Tomcat/4.1.29 as webserver. So I configured as followed inside web.xml which is under Web-INF folder. What happened was just after updating xml file, my applicaiton is failed to start.
Can anybody help me.... please.
The configuration I made inside web.xml is as followed.
<web-app>
<servlet-mapping url-pattern='/hello'
servlet-name='hello-world'/>
<servlet servlet-name='hello-world'
servlet-class='test.HelloWorld'>
<init-param greeting='Hello, World'/>
</web-app>
Yr reviewing & help is very much appreciated.
Thanks so much!
Chan Myae
Edited by: ChanMyae on Oct 29, 2007 8:55 AM

Answer 1

The web.xml snippet you've shown is quite wrong. This is how it should be:
<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>MyServletName</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>my.package.MyServletClass</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>myParamName</param-name>
            <param-value>myParamValue</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MyServletName</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>You can then access this servlet as http://servername/webAppName/hello
Where did you get that web.xml structure anyway? You should probably steer clear of that source.
Also, 4.1 is quite an old version. There have been many changes in Tomcat as well as the Servlet and JSP specs. I'd suggest you upgrade.
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Edited by: nogoodatcoding on Oct 29, 2007 9:47 PM