Tomcat and Structs: welcome-file

Dear all,
With tomcat 5.0, 5.5, I defined the welcome file in web.xml as
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/login.show.do</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
It did work.
But if I put
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/login.show.do</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
It did not work.
Are there any explanation/solution/workround?
Regards,
PY
PS: With Weblogic 8.0, there is no this kind of limitation.

Sorry. Let me correct my question as follows:
Dear all,
With tomcat 5.0, 5.5, I defined the welcome file in
web.xml as
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/login.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
It works.
But if I put
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/login.show.do</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
It does not work.
Are there any explanation/solution/workround?
Regards,
PY
PS: With Weblogic 8.0, there is no this kind of
limitation.

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