I have manually configured web.xml
for my application. Now, I'm facing issues while running my application. I'm trying to access my servlet
from my jsp
page. But, it is throwing error as page not found
.
The servlets are placed under below folder location
<application folder>/WEB-INF/classes/<package>
So, what should be the entries for servlets in url-pattern
and servlet-mapping
. So that, servlet
can be accessible through URL.
url-pattern
is used in web.xml
to map your servlet
to specific URL. Please see below xml code, similar code you may find in your web.xml
configuration file.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name
<servlet-class>upload.AddPhotoServlet</servlet-class> //servlet class
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name
<url-pattern>/AddPhotoServlet</url-pattern> //how it should appear
</servlet-mapping>
If you change url-pattern
of AddPhotoServlet
from /AddPhotoServlet
to /MyUrl
. Then, AddPhotoServlet
servlet can be accessible by using /MyUrl
. Good for the security reason, where you want to hide your actual page URL.
Java Servlet url-pattern
Specification:
- A string beginning with a '/' character and ending with a '/*' suffix is used for path mapping.
- A string beginning with a '*.' prefix is used as an extension mapping.
- A string containing only the '/' character indicates the "default" servlet of the application. In this case the servlet path is the request URI minus the context path and the path info is null.
- All other strings are used for exact matches only.
Reference : Java Servlet Specification
You may also read this Basics of Java Servlet