At 10:33 AM 4/16/01 -0400, Mark wrote:
>Sam,
>
>I had no web.xml for the context. I was able
>to fix things by adding it. I guess web.xml
>is not optional in a case like
>this, where the servlet is in a package. I think
>the FM should be more clear on this.
>
>Thanks a lot for the help!
>
>Mark
The web.xml entry is not required; however, by adding it, you can avoid
providing the
fully qualified servlet file/path name in your html.
Ed
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sam Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:15 AM
>Subject: Re: packages under WEB-INF/classes
>
>
> > Does your entry in the web.xml for your context reference the servlet
>using
> > its full path? Also, double check the case of the packages - the entry
> > web.xml, the package declaration and the actual directory strucutre all
>have
> > to match.
> >
> > sam
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:10 PM
> > Subject: packages under WEB-INF/classes
> >
> >
> > > I have read on this list and in docs if
> > > your servlet class is part of a package,
> > > say com.foo.foobar...that
> > > if you put it in a directory called
> > >
> > > $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes/com/foo/foobar
> > >
> > > assuming the source file has the statement
> > >
> > > package com.foo.foobar;
> > >
> > > it will be picked up by the class loader and will work.
> > >
> > > I have tried this just that way and had this result:
> > >
> > > - Ctx( /foo ): Exception in: R( /foo + /servlet/foo + null)
> > > - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: foo (wrong name: com/bar/foobar/foo)
> > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
> > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:486)
> > >
> > > [remainder of stack dump snipped]
> > >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > > --------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Yet if I remove the package declaration and put the file
> > > in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes,
> > > it works.
> > >
> > > All defaults are being used as far as the configuration files (ie. for
> > this
> > > example I only added the directory under myapps and added nothing
> > > to tomcat.con or server.xml).
> > >
> > > What am I missing? What is the correct way to add a servlet
> > > that has a package declaration?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
