SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet ServletHandler

hi,
i'm new to JSP and Servlets. I have written a JSP login page and i'm processing those data through a Servlet. But i get this exception when i submit the login page. SEVERE:
Allocate exception for servlet ServletHandler
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ServletHandler

This is my login page
<form action="ServletHandler" method="post">
<table width="350" border="0">
<tr><td>User name</td><td><input type="text" name="uname"/></td></tr>
<tr><td>Password</td><td><input type="password" name="pword"/></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>New User<input type="checkbox" name="new"/></td></tr>

<tr><td></td><td><input type="submit" value="Login"/><input type="reset" value="Cancel"/></td></tr>
</table>
</form>

and "ServletHandler" is the Servlet class
There i have implemented the doPost and doGet methods.

And also i edited the web.xml by adding following lines

<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>ServletHandler</display-name>
<servlet-name>ServletHandler</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>ServletHandler</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ServletHandler</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/ServletHandler</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Is that Servlet class in some package?

You need fully-qualified class name of the servlet in servlet-class tag
in web.xml

Code:

---

...
<servlet-class>
package.foo.MyServlet
<servlet-class>
...

---

TIP: When you write servlet always test it first. Just write some simple
System.out messages in doGet() and doPost() that you can track in console and hit URL like

http://localhost:8080/myapp/ServletHandler

to see if its working

cheers!

hi,
thanks. You saved the day..:)