axeorcat: Tomcat JSP Strangeness

Tomcat JSP Strangeness

28 November 2005, 15:27 Filed under Coding

Order matters in web.xml.

Had some tomcat wierdness

Despite the fact this is in the main tomcat web.xml


    <servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> 

<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> 

</servlet-mapping>

I was seeing direct .jsp requests sent to my controller which is mapped in the webapp web.xml as


    <servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>control</servlet-name> 

<url-pattern>/</url-pattern> 

</servlet-mapping>

To follow symlinks put allowLinking="true" in the Context.