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

Could there be a older version of web.xml lurking around somewhere, without the block?

Perhaps do a find . -type f -name web.xml (or similar for windows) in tomcat's directories?