Can anyone guide me how to get Servlets working in Apache Tomcat server? I can run the Servlets from Netbeans without problems, but I don't know where to put the class files in Tomcat.
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They go in Tomcat/webapps folder. There are several ways to deploy a JSP/Servlet webapplication on Tomcat. They are all described in Tomcat Web Application Deployment HOW-TO.
If you already have developed the webapplication in Netbeans, then Netbeans should already have build a WAR file of it in the /dist folder. You just need to drop the WAR file in Tomcat/webapps folder and Tomcat will automatically deploy it during startup (or even while running, this is called hotdeploy).
If you want to develop without an IDE and/or don't want to create a WAR, then you just need to put a folder representing the context name in Tomcat/webapps, e.g. Tomcat/webapps/contextname. It will become the public web content. You can drop all JSP files and other static files in there. Then, for classes you need to create a Tomcat/webapps/contextname/WEB-INF/classes folder. There should go the package structure.
BalusC
2010-09-07 12:15:48
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In tomcat:
- class files must be in
TOMCAT_DIR/webapps/<yourAppName>/WEB-INF/classes - jar files must be in
TOMCAT_DIR/webapps/<yourAppName>/WEB-INF/lib
(and if course you'll need web.xml in WEB-INF)
Bozho
2010-09-07 12:16:23