well, that form tag you posted won't do as it's seriously malformed...
Well, then you will have a tough time in your project. Anyways it works for me.
Deploy below files in tomcat or any Servlet Container.
Directory structure should be like this.
Sample
---+WEB-INF
------+classes
----------+com
-------------+sample
------------------+Servlet.class
------------------+Servlet.java
------+lib
----------+servlet-api.jar
------+web.xml
---+index.html
1. index.html
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form action="sample.do" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="myName" ></input>
</form>
</body>
</html>
2. Servlet.java
package com.sample;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public class SampleServlet extends HttpServlet{
private static final long serialVersionUID = -8734960688756643493L;
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest arg0, HttpServletResponse arg1) throws ServletException, IOException {
service(arg0, arg1);
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest arg0, HttpServletResponse arg1) throws ServletException, IOException {
service(arg0, arg1);
}
protected void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<HTML>" +
"<HEAD>Sample</HEAD>" +
"<BODY>\n" +
"<H1>Hello World</H1>\n" +
"</BODY>" +
"</HTML>"); }
}
3. web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>Sample</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>sample</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sample.SampleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>sample</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
4. servlet-api.jar
download it from
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sro...ervlet-api.jar
Deploy this application and check if it works. If this also doesn't work then best luck.
And by the way "*.do" url is properly functioning in this sample web project.
And about the database error, it might not have been configured properly, provided if you are not doing anything logically or syntactically wrong in your code which connects D
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