Hi Vineesh, The class name is DownloadFiles.class Pls let me know wat is access permissions of the class and tomcat. I m posting my web.xml after including package. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <display-name>Tomcat Documentation</display-name> <description> Tomcat Documentation. </description> <servlet> <servlet-name>DownloadFiles</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>DownloadFiles</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/servlet/DownloadFiles</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> Now wen i run the appln, I get error 500. Pls let me know where i hav gone wrong. I believe there might be some silly mistake. Always welcome ur help. thank u Regards Deepa
vineesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deepa, plz check the following things is ur class is public? whether the class name is DownloadFiles.class itself? also check the access permissions of the class and tomcat directory if ur on a X'nix machine --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket