My web.xml is like
<web-app version="2.4"
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">
<display-name>sample</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Sampleclass</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>sample.SampleClass</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Sampleclass</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SampleClass</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/page/form.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
and form.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A simple web application</h1>
<form method="POST" name="Sampleclass" action="SampleClass">
<label for="name">Enter your name </label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name"/><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form"/>
<input type="reset" value="Reset Form"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
and SampleClass.java is
public class SampleClass extends HttpServlet {
public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
super.init(config);
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String name = request.getParameter("name");
String age = request.getParameter("age");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.write("<html>Hello Your name is "+name +", and your age is "+age+"</html>");
}
public void destroy() {
}
}
but I am getting error when I entered to submit button of form.jsp
and error is
type Status report
message HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL
description The specified HTTP method is not allowed for the requested resource (HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL).
I am not understanding that what is the problem exactly ? Please help..