hi, I'm trying to run my 1st servlet I'm using eclipse and tomcat
but I get an error that I cannot solve. can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

here is my index.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="GreetingServlet" method="POST">
        First Name: <input type="text" name="firstName" size="20"><br>
        Surname: <input type="text" name="surname" size="20">
        <br><br>
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>


</body>
</html>

and here is my servlet

GreetingServlet.java

package J;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class GreetingServlet
 */
public class GreetingServlet extends HttpServlet {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    /**
     * Default constructor. 
     */
    public GreetingServlet() 
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

	/**
	 * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
	 */
	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException 
	{
		response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName").toString();
        String surname = request.getParameter("surname").toString();

        out.println("<html>");
        out.println("<head>");
        out.println("<title>Servlet GreetingServlet</title>");
        out.println("</head>");
        out.println("<body>");
        out.println("<h1>Servlet GreetingServlet at " + request.getContextPath () + "</h1>");
        out.println("<p>Welcome " + firstName + " " + surname + "</p>");
        out.println("</body>");
        out.println("</html>");

        out.close();
	}

	/**
	 * @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
	 */
	protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException 
	{
		String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName").toString();
        System.out.println("firstName = " + firstName);
	}

}

When ever I run it I get this error
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HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HttpServlet
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1819)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:872)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1327)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


root cause

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HttpServlet
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1360)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206)
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1819)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:872)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1327)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.16 logs.


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Apache Tomcat/6.0.16
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If anyone needs to see my WAR file to better see my code please download it here http://www.fileshost.com
/delete.php?id=ED9402B911750

Thanks in advance

There is no file, I got following message "Sorry, but you seem to have bumped into an invalid link. Looks like the file has already been deleted"

There is no file, I got following message "Sorry, but you seem to have bumped into an invalid link. Looks like the file has already been deleted"

here's a new link to the file http://www.savefile.com/files/2053336

thanks

I am getting errors in the

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

it keeps on saying that it cannot be resolved am I missing something?

stick your web.xml file definition in here; downloading ur war file is to much stress

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