Question

I am having this question can we specify the servlet path in the servlet itself something like

(path = /myServlet)
public MyNormalServlet extends HttpServlet….{
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.
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}

So If call from browser say “http://localhost:8080/myServlet”
this servlet of mine will get called and it would also be an independent servlet in tomcat whose mapping cant be specified in tomcat’s web.xml

Please if can anyone help me with this and provide the possible solution for it..

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you are running Tomcat, just edit the web.xml file:

(...)
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>TestingServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>TestingServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>TestingServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/servlet/TestingServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
(...)

Where:
… the name of your servlet. It can be anything you want, it just must match the inside the servlet-mapping
…the name of the class that will handle this servlet.

… anything you want, as long as it matches the same tag on
… the url path you want to respond to.. So in your example you would type ‘/myServlet’ here

If you want to read more on the subject: http://javapapers.com/servlet/what-is-servlet-mapping/