Servlet won't deploy

Question

Using Tomcat I have the following web.xml file in webapps/hello/WEB-INF/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">
     <display-name>Test Hello World Servlet</display-name>
     <description>
     A test servlet.
     </description>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>hello-servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>test.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>hello-servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>and the following java class has been compiled and placed into webapps/hello/WEB-INF/classes/test/
package test;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet
     public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req,
                          HttpServletResponse res)
     throws ServletException, IOException
          PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
          out.println("Hello, world!");
          out.close();
}No matter what I seem to do I cannot get the manager application to deploy my app. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

I have tried manually and I have tried using the manager app and I have obviously got something very wrong. I haven't compressed to a .war file and deployed as I don't need to do that yet. I have been using a directory structure for development and then compiling classes into their correct place then copy the app dir into webapps. As far as I can make out the manager app should then pick it up as long as it is correctly configured. After restarting Tomcat /hello application is not listed and the url http://localhost:8080/hello/hello gives an error:
type Status report
message This application is not currently available
description The requested service (This application is not currently available) is not currently available.I have also tried deploying using the input fields headed deploy directory and the app is still not listed.