Mapping a servlet to http://hostname/hello.dll

[mcgee]

Hi all,

I have an existing client that I have to respond to, and it's trying to connect to URLs of the form http://hostname/hello.dll; that is, there's no webapp name provided. I can do this under plain ol' Tomcat by messing with $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web/xml, but JBoss seems to do more than just pass URLs through to Tomcat unmolested, and I'm not sure how to do what I want through JBoss.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
McGee

[jasonbrome]

Just make your web application the root application - i.e. under the default context. The standard way to do this is by wrapping the war within an ear. In your ear's application.xml, set a context of / for the war file.

Then add an entry to your web.xml that maps the context path /hello.dll to your servlet.

Jason

[mcgee]

Thank you Jason. Someone else here did some forum browsing and found a suggestion to simply include a jboss-web.xml in his .WAR file, and put the context-root entry in jboss-web.xml. Unless I'm mistaken, putting it in application.ear as you suggest would be more general and better than using jboss.xml. I'll give this a shot myself.

Thanks Jason,
Chris