Hi,
You can't right now.  You will be able to once the servlet specification
version 2.4 is out, and a supporting container (e.g. Tomcat 5.x) is
available.

For now, you have to do various workarounds, for example an HTML page
with a meta http-equiv redirection to your servlet.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rajkumar Sen [mailto:rajkumar@;cse.iitb.ac.in]
>Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:44 PM
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>Subject: servlet as the default file
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>Hello
>     How do I make a servlet to be the default file rather than
>the index.jsp file??Basically I want to use the servlet to act as a
proxy.
>I tried modifying the welcome list in web.xml file ,replacing index.jsp
by
>servletname.class but the browser asks the user to download the .class
>file instead of displaying it??
>
>Rajkumar Sen
>MTech 1 CSE
>IIT Bombay
>
>www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~rajkumar
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