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The servlet will respond with a static HTML page (we defined the content type as Text/
HTML with an UTF-8 charset) for every GET HTTP request that will be issued against its
URL address.
Note
Notice that
TextServlet
bears the
@WebServlet
annotation, which has been intro-
duced by the Servlet 3.0 API, and it allows registering a servlet without using the
web.xml
configuration file. In our example, we used it to customize the servlet URL
binding to employ
/test
, which would otherwise be defaulted by Eclipse to the class
name.
We will complete the application with the creation of a
JBoss
file descriptor named
jboss-web.xml in /WebContent/WEB-INF/
directory; although this is not
mandatory, it can be used to redefine the context root, as shown in the following code
snippet:
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/hello</context-root>
</jboss-web>
Note
The schema definition file for
jboss-web.xml
is named
jboss-web_8_0.xsd
and
can be located in the
JBOSS_HOME/docs/schema
folder.
Keep in mind that creating
jboss-web.xml
makes the application non-portable to oth-
er Java EE Application Servers. The default application path when such a file is not
defined is a concatenation of the application name and its version, for example, for applic-
ation
TestServlet
with Version 1.0, it would be TestServlet-1.0.
Now, we will add the web application to the list of deployed resources by right-clicking
on the Eclipse
Server
tab and selecting
Add and Remove
. This is shown in the following
screenshot:
