Setting a servlet as a welcome page. Impossible?

[Andrea Desole]

Since I'm using JSF for my application, I would like to set the welcome
page to a page with extension .faces, which is mapped to the faces
servlet. With my surprise I found out that I can't assign the welcome
page to a url that is mapped to a servlet. What I get is just the
listing of the root directory of my application.
I didn't find anything on the servlet specs, and I wonder if this
behavior is just a general case or specific to JBoss, which is what I'm
using.
Anyone has an idea?

 

[Tom Dyess]

Since I'm using JSF for my application, I would like to set the welcome
page to a page with extension .faces, which is mapped to the faces
servlet. With my surprise I found out that I can't assign the welcome page
to a url that is mapped to a servlet. What I get is just the listing of
the root directory of my application.
I didn't find anything on the servlet specs, and I wonder if this behavior
is just a general case or specific to JBoss, which is what I'm using.
Anyone has an idea?

I've run into the same problem, except I'm running Tomcat. I hacked around
it by having the default document (index.html) send a redirect to
http://localhost:8080/WebPortal/webportal which is my default servlet. I'd
like to hear an alternate solutions as I don't like that technique.

 

[Andrea Desole]

I've run into the same problem, except I'm running Tomcat. I hacked around
it by having the default document (index.html) send a redirect to
http://localhost:8080/WebPortal/webportal which is my default servlet. I'd
like to hear an alternate solutions as I don't like that technique.

I don't like it either. But I did the same.
JBoss uses Tomcat as servlet container, so the situation is not much
different.