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Do I really need to build a complete webapp just to add a simple Helloworld servlet to the server?

April 26, 2017build COMPLETE HelloWorld server servlet simple webapp

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Do I really need to build a complete webapp just to add a simple Helloworld servlet to the server?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=445934 Created: Jun 26, 2001 Modified: 2001-07-18 10:31:12.417 Author: Sachin Patil (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=280417) Question originally posed by James Richardson (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=255219 Not at all. You can put a single servlet anywhere on your hard disk but you will have to configure your path in server.xml and servlet alias in web.xml as usual. Let me be a bit more descriptive. If I have my HelloWorld servlet under c:/foo/hello directory, i will set my path in server.xml like And then in web.xml : hello HelloWorld that tomcat considers while starting and you can start your servlet. [However, it’s not that big a deal to make a webapp. Just make a directory (say, /home/alex/foo), give it a WEB-INF/web.xml file, and put the servlet classes in /home/alex/foo/WEB-INF/classes, then add