'servlet' in URL

[Colin Freas <Co...@faa.gov>]

Is there any way to set Tomcat to deliver servlets without the string
'servlet' appearing anywhere in the URL?

Colin

Re: 'servlet' in URL

[James Cribb <ja...@zip.com.au>]

Colin Freas wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to set Tomcat to deliver servlets without the string
> 'servlet' appearing anywhere in the URL?

Yes:  add them to the context's WEB-INF/web.xml file.  But the format of
this file is not explained in the docs that come with Tomcat.  You need
to get the Java Servlet 2.2 Specification from Sun
(http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html#specs) and read
chapter 13 "Deployment Descriptor".  Here's how your web.xml file might
look:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd">
<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>
            eric
        </servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            FunkyServlet
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>
            eric
        </servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>
            /grind
        </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>


Then, if your Tomcat server.xml defines context "/colin" to be the
parent directory of the WEB-INF directory that contains this web.xml
file (!), you can run the FunkyServlet servlet using
"http://host/colin/grind".

Complicated, isn't it.

Re: 'servlet' in URL

[Jon Skeet <jo...@peramon.com>]

> Is there any way to set Tomcat to deliver servlets without the string
> 'servlet' appearing anywhere in the URL?

Absolutely - just set up an appropriate context path. I'd have thought
you'd have to go slightly out of your way to *make* it use servlet. How
much of the documentation have you read, out of interest?

Jon