I need to call a servlet from an HTML file, but I can't get my servlet to work outside the Eclipse IDE. Something must be wrong with my paths, but I don't know what.
I'm using Tomcat 7.0.
This is my servlet class:
package myapp;
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append("<html><body bgcolor=pink text=black>");
sb.append("<h1 align=center>Hello World!</h1>");
sb.append("<body></html>");
out.println(sb);
}
}
I also have this web.xml file:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>myapp.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/HelloServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
And my HTML file has a simple form like this:
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="HelloServlet">
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
Then, in my C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps folder I created a "test" folder where I placed my index.html file and a WEB-INF folder with the web.xml file and a sub-folder called "classes", where I placed HelloServlet.java and HelloServlet.class.
I also set environment variables in my windows 7 system: CATALINA_HOME with value C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0 and CLASSPATH with value %CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;.
With all of this, I start tomcat, open index.html and click on the submit button. All I get is a "Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 7.0/webapps/test/HelloServlet" error message.
What kind of newbie mistake am I making?
Thanks!!!
