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Hi there,

It's me again, newbie. I hava a question about the folder to keep Servlet classes. In jakarta-tomcat-4.0-b5 the \WEB-INF\classes is the folder for Servlet classes. I try a java servlet jsdk2.1 and it has a different folder names \WEB-INF\servlets to keep servlet classes.
I think that there should be somewhere to config the folder to keep servlet classes. I don't know what i'm thinking is right. Please help me. Thanks a lot.

Newbie

Don't use jsdk2.1, it is outdated and uses an old and deprecated method of placing the .class files under /WEB-INF/servlets folder.

The current and industry-wide standard method is to place .class files under /WEB-INF/classes folder. This is not specific for Tomcat, any current Servlet container e.g. Resin, Orion etc expects .class files to be under /WEB-INF/classes folder.

And there is no standard option to use any other folder other than /WEB-INF/classes to keep class files, although there is an option to do that in Resin ( which you shouldn't do because there is no reason why you'd want to place them anywhere else besides /WEB-INF/classes folder ).