Servlets in Java : Folder Structure for Tomcat ~ foundjava

Servlets Folder Structure in Apache Tomcat

Webapps directory in Tomcat: 

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C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps\

Note: Program Files is the place where software is installed in your computer, there you will find Apache Software Foundation, and there, Tomcat <version_installed>, in it webapps folder is present.

webapps

       |_ project_name

            |           |_ myhtml.html

            |           |_ index.html

            |_ WEB-INF

                  |   |_ classes

                  |          |_ MyServlet.java

                  |          |_ MyServlet.class

                  |_ web.xml

Description: 

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1. webapps contain project_name folder.

2. project_name folder may contain html files and WEB-INF directory is must.

3. WEB-INF folder contains web.xml and classes folder.

4. classes folder contains servlet classes.