There may be a work-around for this but I what I really want to know is why it doesn't work.
I am following the MVC design pattern in building a simple test web application using Tomcat 6.0.10 on Mac OS Tiger. MVC pattern suggests every webapp request be handled by a servlet. Static content rendered by forwarding the request to a jsp page. Dynamic content is handled by java code and presentation by css (in my app). I am confused over the apparent inconsistent behavior observed when specifying a servlet-mapping in web.xml with a url-pattern = '/' against other url-patterns. Is this a bug in tomcat? For Example: I have a web application on my filesystem (deployed with default build.xml) under: $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ixania. My web.xml file defines a servlet named BootStrap with a mapping like this: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>BootStrap</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping > The BootStrap servlet only does one thing on an http GET request: RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/tmp.jsp"); dispatcher.forward(request, response); tmp.jsp only contains a single string as context in the <body>: FOOBAR When I navigate to http://localhost/ixania, I see FOOBAR in the browser. When I add a <link> reference to tmp.jsp to locate a css file: link href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/css/tmp.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> The css never gets resolved. The css is on the filesystem at $CATALINA_HOME/ixania/css/tmp.css When I change the url-pattern in web.xml to <url-pattern>/ixania</url-pattern> and navigate to http://localhost/ixania/ixania the context is display and the css is applied. This seems like a tomcat bug to me since I have simply substituted '/' for '/ixania' in both the url-pattern and the actual URL. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]