Question

I have created a class which extends HttpServlet in a package called controller

I created this in this src folder and have the build path output folder set to webapp/WEB-INF/classes

In my web.xml I have

<servlet>
<servlet-name>SearchController</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>controller.SearchController</servlet-class>
</servlet>

I have a JQuery Ajax call:

 $.ajax({
            url : "SearchController",
            data : "q=test", 
            ...            
});

So I expect my servlet class to post something like SearchController?q=test

This doesn’t work. Have I specified the wrong servlet-class in web.xml?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to have entry for servlet-mapping as well in your web.xml

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SearchController</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SearchController</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

You can give any value in url-pattern node and you can access the servlet with that value