hi,

   I have tomcat 4.1.24 installed in my windows 98 SE machine.
   Tomcat is working fine
   I have purchased a Book Proffesional JSP second edition.

   I was trying to run the MyfirstServlet example as described in the book

   as written in the book
   i made the following directories
   webapps\ch03\WEB-INF\classes\com\wrox\projsp\ch03\myfirstwebapp

   wrote the Myfirst.java code inside and it complied fine.

   but when i tried to run the servler thru the URl as below
   http://localhost:8080/ch03/servlet/c...webapp.Myfirst

i get the below message what could be wrong

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type Status report

message /ch03/servlet/com.wrox.projsp.ch03.myfirstwebapp.Myfirst

description The requested resource (/ch03/servlet/com.wrox.projsp.ch03.myfirstwebapp.Myfirst) is not available.


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Apache Tomcat/4.1.24


when i copied the Myfirst class file in the examples directory and changed the url it ran fine.

what am i doing worng please help:(

Did you include a web.xml file in webapps\ch03\WEB-INF ? If not it's not recognised as a directory containing servlets and other Java code.