Hello,

I have installed Eclipse and Tomcat on my PC. I am able to run Java code without any problems using Eclipse. I am able to run servlets using tomcat. To run a servlet I had to create a web.xml file under WEB-INF folder and it worked.

Now, I am trying to run a "Hello world" JSP (in reality it is an HTML file as I have not included any Java code yet). I saved it as .JSP though. I created a folder "HelloWorld" and created JSPHelloWorld.jsp. When I enter "localhost/8080/HelloWorld/JSPHelloWorld.jsp" it does not recognize it. I did not create a web.xml file. Is that the problem? What kind of set up do I need to make? Tomcat is NOT that great when it comes to giving what the error is.

Please help!!

Thank you!!

Hi

   I think u forgot u write JSP tag in JSPHelloWorld.jsp.
  <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>

  I think this will help u.

Hello artidatanova,

Thank you for responding. I tried with "<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>". That did not seem to fix it. I suspect it is something specific to Eclipse/Tomcat setup. I ran into similar issues when I tried to run servlets.

Not creating a WEB XML file may well be your problem.
You also need to maintain the correct directory structure for files.

You can copy releveant folders including web xml from the jsp example setup into your webapp.

If you copy the web xml files and folders Tomcat will pick up the new webapp without manually entering the context for the site.

Hi

  OK.Then u should create a web.xml in WEB_INF folder,and make sure your directory structure are right:)

Here is code for 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>

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>AdministratorServlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>AdministratorServlet</servlet-class>
 </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>AdministratorServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/AdministratorServlet</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>





</web-app>

Enjoy!

Hi, It worked!! Thank you! Appreciate your help very much.

Hi Javamaniac,
  I am trying to run a HelloWorld servlet on the Tomcat server that I installed on my machine. I followed the tutorial from http://javaboutique.internet.com/tut...e/index-2.html.

But I am not successful in getting the helloworld to work. Can you help me out.

Thanks,
Sampath