HOW TO VIEW A SERVLET
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CREATE A ROOT DIRECTORY IN WEB APPS FOLDER OF TOMCAT MODIFY THE WEB.XML FILE FROM ONE OF THE EXISTING EXAMPLES IN TOMCAT TO INCLUDE YOUR SERVLET (SEE HOW AN EXISTING EXAMPLE IN TOMCAT DOES IT) CREATE SUBDIRECTORY Web-inf UNDER THE ROOT CONTEXT. INSIDE Web-inf CREATE A NEW DIRECTORY CALLED CLASSES PLACE THE WEB.XML FILE UNDER THE Web-inf DIRECTORY. THEN PLACE YOUR SERVLET CLASSES UNDER THE CLASSES SUBFOLDER SHUT DOWN TOMCAT AND THEN RESTARTED GO TO TH EBROWSER AND TYPE THE ADDRESS:http://localhost:8080/root_context_name/servlet/name_of_your servlet