Servlet mapping

[cozsmin]

Hello

I have tomcat 6.0 on windows xp , jdk 1.5

I made a simple servlet
/webapps/my/WEB-INF/web.xml :

<web-app>

<servlet>
	<servlet-name>my</servlet-name>
	<servlet-class>my.Servlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

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


<welcome-file-list>
	<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

and the servlet class :
/webapps/my/WEB-INF/classes/my/Servlet.java

package my;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import java.io.PrintWriter; 
public class Servlet extends HttpServlet {

	PrintWriter out;
	public void doGet (HttpServletRequest rq, HttpServletResponse rs) throws java.io.IOException {
		doPost (rq,rs);
	}
	
	public void doPost (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws java.io.IOException {
		respond(request,response);
	}
	
	public void respond (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws java.io.IOException {
		out.print("testing");
	}
}

I get from http:://localhost/my the following :

java.lang.NullPointerException
	my.Servlet.respond(Servlet.java:22)
	my.Servlet.doPost(Servlet.java:17)
	my.Servlet.doGet(Servlet.java:13)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

and the tomcat widow says :

INFO:Reloading context [/my]
CONTAINER org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/my] has not been started

I guess it cannot instantiate the my.Servlet but I have no ideea why

[cozsmin]

Well the hell with it :)

now it works :)