Hi,
  I jus tried this. I created another folder under webapps and the tree 
structure is as below.
  Download1--
  --WEB-INF/web.xml
  --WEB-INF/classes/com/deepa/servlet/DownloadFiles.class
  --WEB-INF/lib
   
  Download1 is under webapps folder. 
  But after trying this too i am getting the same error. The web.xml is shown 
below.
   
  <?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>
   
  Here is a error logs file:
   
  2006-02-01 10:15:18 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet 
DownloadFiles is currently unavailable
2006-02-01 10:15:28 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet DownloadFiles 
is currently unavailable
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@c6f734')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@8f9a32')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@1d47b2b')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: 
contextDestroyed()
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: 
contextDestroyed()
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@1aa2c23')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@137d4a4')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: 
attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', 
'[Ljava.lang.String;@6963d0')
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: 
contextDestroyed()
2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: 
contextDestroyed()
2006-02-01 10:28:54 
StandardContext[/balancer]org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): 
ruleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: 
[org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / 
Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com], 
[org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: 
paramName / Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: 
http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: 
Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]]
2006-02-01 10:28:54 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: 
contextInitialized()
2006-02-01 10:28:54 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: 
contextInitialized()
2006-02-01 10:29:25 StandardContext[/Download1]Marking servlet DownloadFiles as 
unavailable
2006-02-01 10:29:25 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Allocate exception for 
servlet DownloadFiles
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class 
com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:996)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:687)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
----- Root Cause -----
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles.<init>(DownloadFiles.java:32)
 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
 at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
 at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
 at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
 at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:987)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:687)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
 at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
 at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  2006-02-01 10:29:29 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet 
DownloadFiles is currently unavailable
   
  Pls let me wat might be the problem.
  deepa

   
  

 

                                
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