Beginner Servlet Config Q (with parameters)

Hello,

I am going through the examples in a book and I'm having trouble configuring
the servlet
to behave the way I want it to....

My code is in: c:\resin-2.1.0\web-inf\classes\coreservlets\ShowMessage.java
and the ShowMessage.java code includes the statement: package coreservlets

What I want to be able to do is to use the URL: http://localhost/servlet/ShowMsg
invoke my ShowMessage servlet.

Have tried the following file as well as a million variations:

c:\resin-2.1.0\web-inf\web.xml

*****************************************
<web-app id='/'>
 <servlet-mapping url-pattern='servlet/ShowMsg'
                   servlet-name='ShowMsg'/>
  <servlet servlet-name='ShowMsg'
  servlet-class='coreservlets.ShowMessage'>
        <init-param message='Testing 1 2 3'/>
        <init-param repeats='5'/>
</web-app>
**********************************************

Unfortunately, it keeps giving me "error 500: Class `ShowMsg' was not found
in classpath.
Classes normally belong in /WEB-INF/classes."

Please note that any other servlets that I've dropped in c:\resin-2.1.0\web-inf\classes\coreservlets
work fine although I am not using the web.xml stuff above.

I'm using IIS 5.0 on Win2k Server SP2 and Resin 2.1.0 configured to run
as a service.

Have gone through the documentation but that has left me a bit confused.

Any help would be appreciated.

thx

David
Received on Tue 02 Apr 2002 10:01:02 -0800