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Adding Servlet to WEB-INF/classes

I have added my Servlet to web.xml and placed it in WEB-INF/classes. When I attempt to access the servlet at the context I configured I recieve a 404 error. The xml config is fine, I copied it from my working test context. What am I doing wrong ?

Here is my web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
        PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
        "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
        <display-name>Open Edit</display-name>

        <servlet>
          <servlet-name>ReferrerLink</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>ReferrerLink</servlet-class>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>dbuser</param-name>
            <param-value>XXXXX</param-value>
          </init-param>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>dbpass</param-name>
            <param-value>XXXXXX</param-value>
          </init-param>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>dbname</param-name>
            <param-value>XXXXXX</param-value>
          </init-param>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>refnum</param-name>
            <param-value>5</param-value>
          </init-param>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>incoming-context</param-name>
            <param-value>/in</param-value>
          </init-param>
        </servlet>

        <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>ReferrerLink</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>/rlink</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>

        <filter>
            <filter-name>gzip</filter-name>
            <filter-class>com.openedit.servlet.gzip.GzipFilter</filter-class>
        </filter>

        <filter>
                <filter-name>OEFilter</filter-name>
                <filter-class>com.openedit.servlet.OpenEditFilter</filter-class>
        </filter>

        <filter-mapping>
            <filter-name>gzip</filter-name>
            <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
        </filter-mapping>
        <filter-mapping>
            <filter-name>gzip</filter-name>
            <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
        </filter-mapping>
        <filter-mapping>
                <filter-name>OEFilter</filter-name>
                <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        </filter-mapping>

        <welcome-file-list>
                <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Devin Titcomb Tue, Jan 6, 4:44 AM

If you want to combine the output of your servlet with OpenEdit layouts then see this page: http://www.openedit.org/oemanual/pages/programming/Generators.html

Christopher Burkey (OpenEdit) Wed, Jan 7, 7:57 AM

Thank you for your helpful response. My Servlet is working fine from within jsp tags now. However, when I try to access a Servlet directly the content type has been changed to application/octet-stream. I have already called HttpServletResponse.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8"); from within my servlet. Is this also a configuration issue?

Devin Titcomb Wed, Jan 7, 5:30 PM

Since your servlet does not have an extension you will want to add a property the xconf in that folder.