Always resolve the URL yourself before letting the tomcat do it. For every sub application and context's path is equals to <root-context> + sub application's context. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Yes, of course on the matter of the package name. I think I've grasped the points I was struggling with. I have saved the spec to my local disk, and when I'm comfortable enough with the general concepts, I'll be able to read it and understand it. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email
-----Original Message----- From: David Smith Sent: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:28:29 -0500 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: What, exactly, is meant by "full path" when construction web.xml entries More like: package com.kilonovember ; // imports here public class Monkey extends HttpServlet{ // methods and programming } Note I didn't include the class name in the package name. This creates a class with the full name of com.kilonovember.Monkey. --David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks for the sanity check. That did what I expected, so to expand on this, >if I were creating a "real" servlet whose source code opened like this: > >package com.kilonovember.Monkey; >import javax.servlet.*; >import javax.servlet.http.*; >import java.io.*; > >public class Monkey extends HttpServlet{ > >.. programming stuff goes here ... > >} > >I would create this directory structure under "C:\Apache Software >Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps"? > >com/kilonovember > >and place my compiled Monkey.class in kilonovember? > >Next I would edit the web.xml file and add these elements? > > > monkey > com.kilonovember.Monkey > > > > monkey > /monkey > > >Having done that, I would re-start Tomcat and, providing my Monkey.class >compiled correctly, I should expect to be able to type >"http://localhost:8080/monkey" into my browser's address window and see the >output of Monkey.class. Is that correct? > > >Thanks to everyone who responded. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Manivannan.P http://geocities.com/manivannan57 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.