I am developing simple Dynamic Web Project.
Env details:
Eclipse-Kepler (Java 1.6) with
apache tomcat 6.0 server.
My project structure is as follows:
Under
WebContent/jsps folder i have:
home.jsp
listcenters.jsp
center.jsp
Under
/src/com/myexample/controller i have:
CenterController.java --Servlet
Code in home.jsp as follows:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>My App</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My App!</h1>
<a href="CenterController?action=listcenters">Centers List</a>
</body>
</html>
My Web.xml has following mapping:
="1.0"="UTF-8"
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>MyApp</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>home.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CenterController</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.scms.controller.CenterController</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CenterController</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/CenterController</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Now my question is:
When i try to run my project, home page appears correctly with: localhost:port/MyApp/jsps/home.jsp
But when i click on hyperlink - Centers List, the application looks for servlet in same /jsps folder: http://localhost:port/MyApp/jsps/CenterController?action=listcenters and i get HTTP Status - 404 "requested resource not available."
Here is list of trial and error I did:
What I have tried:
Trial#1:
I tried changing the URL in anchor tag in home.jsp: from -
<a href="CenterController?action=listcenters">Centers List</a>
to
<a href="../CenterController?action=listcenters">Centers List</a>
This works well and I am redirected to listcenter.jsp On listcenter.jsp again I have an anchor tag to go back to home page with code as follows:
<a href="CenterController?action=gohome">Go Home</a>
This hypelink works well too. But problem starts after this. Now again if i try to click on Center List hyperlink, I get HTTP Status - 404 "requested resource not available." with URL as : http://localhost:9090/CenterController?action=listcenters. Here context root is missing.
Trial#2:
Keep url for Centers List as previous i.e. :
<a href="CenterController?action=listcenters">Centers List</a>
and tried changing Deploy path in Project's
Web Deployment Assembly structure: I added Source - /WebContent/jsps and Deploy Path='/' This worked and all forward and backward and again forward navigation worked well.
But this caused all jsps in /jsps folder to be deployed under /WebContent folder. I don't want this. This is messy. And also, I don't think this is a full proof solution. Please help.
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