Hi I have problem in running my first servlet. I am new to J2EE and started with a simple servlet as per instructions from my tutor. I installed Apache Tomcat 6 . I wrote a ServletTest1.java program like this package Check; import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; public class ServletTest1 extends GenericServlet { public void service(ServletRequest req,ServletResponse res) throws ServletException,IOException { PrintWriter out=res.getWriter(); res.setContentType("text
html"); out.println(""); out.println(""); out.println("

Welcome to Servlet

"); out.println("This is my first page"); out.println(""); } } I stored the above program under C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\Mydir\WEB-INF\classes\Check\ServletTest.java Compiled and created the .class file Now I started the tomcat server. For the deployment descriptor I opened a notepad file and typed the following and saved this as .xml under C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\Mydir\WEB-INF ServletTest1 Check.ServletTest1 ServerTest1 /test1/ServletTest1 Now I open browser and type the following http://srinivas-home:8085/test1/ServletTest1 It fails to open and gives a http-404 error. Please let me know whats wrong with the above steps

Your web application is not deployed properly.. login with tomcat manager and check whether it is deployed properly or not...

try http://srinivas-home:8085/Mydir/test1/ServletTest1 BTW, res.setContentType("text/html");

perhaps, you can put your tomcat installation in a place without space in the path. good luck!