Loading Servlet in Tomcat 5.5.29

1> After installing tomcat 5.5.29, CLASSPATH needs to be set for servlet-api.jar file (which is located in apache-tomcat (in my case it is tomcat0)/common/lib/servlet-api.jar). So CLASSPATH = $CLASSPATH:$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/servlet-api.jar , where CATALINA_HOME=apache-tomcat folder.

export CLASSPATH

2>Create a directory where you compile all your servlet codes. Let say /usr/Servlet.
Also CLASSPATH needs to be set to this folder also.
i.e CLASSPATH=/usr/Servlet.
export CLASSPATH

3>Create your servlet code (let say example.java). Now compile it to create example.class.
sudo javac -classpath /opt/tomcat0/common/lib/servlet-api.jar HelloWorld.java
where path for servlet jar should be included. i.e

sudo javac -classpath <servlet-jar-path> <example.java>

4>Now goto CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF
--> Create a classes folder (if not present) and copy example.class file to classes folder.
--> Now in web.xml file add these lines
<servlet>
<servlet-name>example</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>example</servlet-class>
</servlet>


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

Above entries to be created inside <web-app>...</web-app> tags available in web.xml file

5> Now stop and start the tomcat .
In my case :
Stop : sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat0 stop
Start : sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat0 start.

6> Goto to browser and type :
http://localhost:8080/example


Thats all