Porting single servlet example to NetBeans 6.1

K

Kurt

Greetings;



Specifics:

OS: Win XP PRO
App Serv: Tomcat 5.5
Netbeans: 6.1

Issue: I am trying to port a simple single servlet from the first
example in Head First Servlets and JSP 2nd Edition to Netbeans 6.1.

This example works fine when I deploy it manually under Tomcat.
However, I am getting a 404 error looking for /Beer-v1/selectBeer.do
when I try to run the version built and deployed with Netbeans.


Working structure under tomcat\webapps\Beer-v1 directory

WEB-INF
†€€€classes
„€€€com
„€€€example
†€€€model
„€€€web
„€€€lib


Files present;

\Beer-v1\form.html
\Beer-v1\result.jsp
\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\web.xml
\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web\BeerSelect.class

Non Working directory under Netbeans:

C:\java\projects\Beer-v1>
†€€€build
„€€€web
†€€€META-INF
„€€€WEB-INF
„€€€classes
„€€€com
„€€€example
„€€€web
†€€€dist
†€€€nbproject
„€€€private
†€€€src
†€€€conf
„€€€java
„€€€com
„€€€example
„€€€web
†€€€test
„€€€web
†€€€META-INF
„€€€WEB-INF


File present:

\Beer-v1\build\web\index.html
\Beer-v1\build\web\META-INF\context.xml
\Beer-v1\build\web\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
\Beer-v1\build\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
\Beer-v1\build\web\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web\BeerSelect.class
\Beer-v1\build\web\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web\result.jsp
\Beer-v1\dist\Beer-v1.war
\Beer-v1\nbproject\ant-deploy.xml
\Beer-v1\nbproject\build-impl.xml
\Beer-v1\nbproject\genfiles.properties
\Beer-v1\nbproject\private
\Beer-v1\nbproject\project.properties
\Beer-v1\nbproject\project.xml
\Beer-v1\nbproject\private\private.properties
\Beer-v1\src\conf\MANIFEST.MF
\Beer-v1\src\java\com
\Beer-v1\src\java\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java
\Beer-v1\src\java\com\example\web\result.jsp
\Beer-v1\web\index.html
\Beer-v1\web\META-INF\context.xml
\Beer-v1\web\WEB-INF\web.xml


Contents of web.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.example.web.BeerSelect</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SelectBeer.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>


Contents of index.html and form.html (They are the same, just two
different names so I can test the manual build and nb build):


<html>
<body>
<h1 align="center">Beer Selection Page</h1>
<form method="POST" action="selectBeer.do">
Select Beer Characteristics<p>
Color:
<select name="color" size="1">
<option value="light"> light </option>
<option value="amber"> amber</option>
<option value="brown"> brown </option>
<option value="dark"> dark </option>
</select>
<br><br>
<center>
<input type="SUBMIT">
</center>
</form>
</body>
</html>


Source to servlet BeerSelect.java


package com.example.web;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;

public class BeerSelect extends HttpServlet

{
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
{

response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("Beer Selection Advice<br>");
String c = request.getParameter("color");
out.println("<br>Got beer color " + c);

}
}



Any ideas?
 
L

Lew

Greetings;

Specifics:

OS: Win XP PRO
App Serv: Tomcat 5.5
Netbeans: 6.1

Issue:  I am trying to port a simple single servlet from the first
example in Head First Servlets and JSP 2nd Edition to Netbeans 6.1.

This example works fine when I deploy it manually under Tomcat.
However, I am getting a 404 error looking for /Beer-v1/selectBeer.do
when I try to run the version built and deployed with Netbeans.

By what steps exactly are you telling NetBeans to deploy this app to
the server, as opposed to simply building the app into the build/ and
dist/ subdirectories?

Are you running the Web app using NetBeans' "run" command, else how?
 

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