Are these URLs considered different?

jbpark03 · April 17th, 2017, 06:04 AM

On page 48 of "Professional Java for Web Applications", author wrote 'mapped to different URLs" referring -

Code:

<servlet> 
    <servlet-name>oddsStore</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.wrox.StoreServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet >
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>endsStore</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.wrox.StoreServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

Don't they have the same class of servlet?

twsp · April 28th, 2017, 11:42 AM

They are indeed the same class of Servlet.

When the author says mapped to different URLs he is referring to the following lines:

Code:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>oddsStore</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/odds</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>endsStore</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/ends</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The servlets named oddsStore and endsStore are instances of the same class - com.wrox.StoreServlet - but they are mapped to different urls through the url-pattern field above - /odds and /ends.