How to get a list of all available servlets?

Question

Is it possible to get a list of all available servlets in an app?

I'm writing a web application that will expose a lot of servlets and I want to use HttpUnit to test each one to see if it is returning (or not!).

As lot of it will return a simple XML response, it would be really helpful not to write a test case for each one, only verify that it is working (a database change has not stopped this servlet to work, for example).

Answer 1

Using reflection you can look for all classes that are a HTTPServlet.

Answer 2

Don't think there is something out of the box. However you could write a small programm which parses your web.xml to gain the needed information.

Answer 3

If you use tomcat, you can include the server jars in your classpath, and then cast the ServletContext to the Tomcat implementation. It contains everything you need.