Tomcat is unable to find my Servlet and is throwing exceptions, but why?

Question

I\'m trying to get into Java web development but seem to be running into a strange issue with Tomcat and an extremely simple servlet. The catalina log is spewing this every

Answer 1

Few hints:

• Does your servlet class extend HttpServlet?
• How about filesystem rights - any possible problem there?
• Perhaps, try also to move the class to a named package (myservlet.MyServlet)

In general, also try to look for more exceptions in the logs.