Made a Java File.. Now what!?

[jolo70]

hi.. Im new to JSP and I was wondering how do you use the servlet after you've created it or compiled it?

Where do you put it?

Do you have to configure your web.xml file?

Please help..

Thanks,
JoLo

 

[pfist]

You have asked a very open ended and ambiguous question. Where do I start. Its Friday I am already tired. You need to experiment some yourself.

So what have you done? Did you create a jsp page in an existing example application? Jsp pages go in the webapps/myapp/ directory. Or are you creating a servlet--the class file goes in the WEB-INF/classes directory. If it is a servlet then you need to restart server--then try to get to it using browser.

http://hostname:8080/myapp/my.jsp

or

http://hostname:8080/myapp/servlet/MyServlet

if you don't have a WEB-INF/web.xml file the web server will not let you have access to anything!

Good Luck, pfist

 

[pfist]

Also play with and look at the example servlets and jsp's that come with Tomcat. You will learn a lot that way.

Best Regards, pfist

 

[meadandale]

My best advice is RTFM. Tomcat comes with alot of examples of how to structure your webapp directories, how to write an Ant build file and how to deploy your app. You just need to read them. You're willing to read the responses to your post, right, so read the manual .