I ‘ported’ my Java web application from Tomcat to Jetty. Like any web application, I defined a ‘welcome file’ in the application’s web.xml file. The welcome-file directive specifies the URL to be loaded by default when someone requests the root of your application. The welcome file may be just a file or a JSP, e.g. index.html, or it may be a name that is mapped to a servlet’s url (through the
In Tomcat, specifying something like
will work just as you would expect. But in Jetty, it will not. Unless you provide a workaround. What the somewhat angrily written post says is this: If you map a servlet to the URL index.htm, a file called index.htm must still exist. You *must* have a static, even empty, file called index.htm to have Jetty pass the request to your servlet that is mapped to that URL. Sorta cludgy, glad I found the answer quickly. Hope this helps others.
