Hello,
I'm trying to run a servlet using Tomcat 5.5.27 using Eclipse with sysdeo plugin, but I'm having a lot of trouble. I tried following a simple tutorial online, that creates a servlet and displays some text, which works just fine. However, I need to work on a project that is located on a CVS server and that's where the problems begin. I begin by selecting File->New->Project->CVS->Projects from CVS, this works just fine. The structure of the directories in this project are however different than that when I make a new Tomcat project that isn't from CVS. Here is an example of the directory structure:
NON CVS Project:
ProjectName
WEB-INF/src
source files
WEB-INF/lib
WEB-INF/web.xml
CVS Project:
ProjectName
src
package-name
source files
lib
WebContent
META-INF
WEB-INF
web.xml
Tomcat doesn't complain about anything yet when I try to go to the servlet url I get a 404 error. I tried exporting a WAR file to the webapps directory in my tomcat folder but it doesn't deploy (not extracting the war file), yet when I use an example servlet packaged in a WAR file from tomcat web page it extracts and works fine. A few people are working on this project but it's working just fine for them, only I am having problems. Any idea what might be the problem?
Thank you for the help.