Step By Step Tutorial To Create A Servlet With Eclipse and Tomcat

To create a servlet application in Eclipse IDE you will need to follow the following steps.

1. Goto file -> New -> Dynamic Web Project


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2. Give a name to your project and click next




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3. Check Generate web.xml Deployment Descriptor and click finish


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4. Click on First project, go to Java Resources -> src. Right click on src select -> New -> Servlet


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5. Give servlet class name and click next


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6. Leave everything else to default and click finish


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7. Now your servlet is created, write some code inside it.


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8. Add servlet-api.jar file to your project. Click in Libraries, right click on Web App Libraries select Build Path -> Configure Build Path


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9. Click on Add External JARs


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10. Select servlet-api.jar from Apache Tomcat Directory


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11. Start the server and run the application