How the Container chooses a welcome file
Client requests: http://www.wickedlysmart.com/MyTestApp/search
Container looks in the DD for a servlet mapping, and doesn’t find a match. Next, the Container looks in the <welcome-file-list> and sees “index.html” at the top.
Container looks in the /MyTestApp/search directory for an “index.html” file, but does not find one.
Container looks at the next <welcome-file> in the <welcome-file-list> in the DD, and sees “default.jsp”.
Container looks in the /MyTestApp/search directory for a “default.jsp” file, finds one, and serves its response to the client.
Get Head First Servlets and JSP, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
