Hi, Welcome ;) The deployment descriptor (web.xml) is necessary.
Many of your questions will be answered here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html There are also many books and tutorials online regarding servlets, webapps, etc. You might find those useful ;) Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:05 AM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Is the web.xml file mandatory? > >Hi all, >I am new to Tomcat. I used Java Web Server all these days. I have a few >servlets and a few HTML pages. In one HTML page, when I submit a form, I >want a servlet to do the action part. My question is, where do I put my >servlet .class files, and is the web.xml that defines my webapp absolutely >necessary and on the HTML form, what do I say in FORM ACTION? >Any help would be greatly appreciated. >Thanks and regards, >Raj > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>