How to tun servlet in Tomcat 5 1

[Vadim]

I loaded Tomcat on my new computer.
When I run this string:
"

http://134.256.34.51:8080/servlet/salesreport3.Salesreport03?ReportId=3"

It give me the 404 error:
HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource (/servlet/salesreport3.Salesreport03) is not available.

The JSP pages are working fine. My servlet address is
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\salesreport3\Salesreport03.class
What should I changed to make it runnable?

Thanks.

 

[sedj]

Make sure you /ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml file looks like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "file:///usr/tomcat/web-app_2_2.dtd">

<web-app>
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>Salesreport</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>salesreport3.Salesreport03</servlet-class>                   
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>	
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>Salesreport</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/servlet/Salesreport</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>	

</web-app>

 

[Vadim]

I have many applications - I'd like to make it generic as possible, and not change web.xml, if I create a new. May you help me to create something like that:

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name></servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>*.*</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name></servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

 

[sedj]

I'm afraid not like that you won't. However, if you uncomment the "invoker" servlet in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml, you will achieve a similar effect. I'm not sure if this would map a servlet such as "com.acme.TestServlet" to a "/servlet/TestServlet" mapping though - I guess you'll need to try it. If that does not work, then you will have to map them one by one - this is standard practice though ...

 

[Vadim]

Sedj, You right, I already found that somewhere in documentation (about invoker) - it's work fine.
Thank you