Servlet is not displaying

[tdavisjr]

Hi,

I just tried to migrate a test servlet that I had running in Tomcat 5 to JBoss latest version. I deployed the application not as a .war packed but as a .war unpacked (e.g. testservlet.war) in the JBoss deploy directory.

I checked the log file and the deploy was sucessfull and my context shows up as /TestServlet just as I specified in the web.xml file.

So, I tried to access the application by http://localhost:8080/TestServlet and it just shows me a directory listing and doesn't run the servlet. Anyone can give me suggestions on what may be wrong. Thanks.

[peterj]

What are the contents of the testservlet.war directory and of the testservlet.war/WEB-INF/web.xml file.

[tdavisjr]

Directory structure:
root-dir - testservlet.war
dir - WEB-INF
| dir - classes
| dir - test
| - TestServlet.class
| - TestServlet.java
- web.xml

And contents of web.xml are:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<display-name>Test Servlet</display-name>
I am just testing a HTTP Servlet


<servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>test.TestServlet</servlet-class>


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

</web-app>

I hope this helps out.

[peterj]

You need to either add a welcome-file-list to your web.xml:

<welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>TestServlet</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>

or use the following url:

http://localhost:8080/testservlet/TestServlet

[tdavisjr]

Worked like a charm. Thank you. Do you have any idea why this wasn't required for Tomcat configuration? Is it because of a different root context?

[peterj]

Actually, I am surpRised that it worked under Tomcat, you should have seen the directory listing there also. Or did you, by any chance, place the testservlet directory under ROOT?

[tdavisjr]

Ok. My goodness. I feel like a dope. Actually, I was actually accessing the servlet via: http://localhost/testservlet/TestServlet, under Tomcat

however,

when I migrated to JBoss I typed the servlet mapping in all lowercase when it should have been in Pascal Case. So, I go a 404 error and I thought it was the wrong URL or the context was incorrect.

Sorry, for the trouble. I'm just beginning with ejb, servlets and jsp's and I migrating to JBoss since I didn't see anything that said Tomcat is a container for EJB's.