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If so, here are some solutions:

• Environment variable issue
• Environment issue or Ant issue
• Others have had success by added JAVA_HOME/bin to their PATH. 1 ... 2 and make sure you are using the full JDK and not the JRE.
  

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Using /servlet/ to map servlets is evil, absolutely evil. Even more evil than this . That being said, here are some threads that may answer this:

• (SECURITY) Apache Tomcat 4.x JSP source disclosure vulnerability
• Cannot Run Servlets, only JSP's, Part II
• Tomcat configuration problem: JSPs work, servlets don
  
  

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No. It was an experiment, it failed. (YMMV) The original purpose of LE "light" edition of Tomcat 4.0, 4.1 was because jdk1.4 provides a LOT of standard functionality that Tomcat uses that was not in jdk1.3. So to save some space two distributions were made to save some bandwidth. Since then, it has been an exercise in confusion. (Flame me if you disagree) More info

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No! Nor can one accurately exist. Here's why

This is done in web.xml by changing welcome-files-list. More detail.

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You'll need to tweak with server.xml and do this. (Don't worry - its really easy!) Update: you should be worried – this feature has its drawbacks.

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Tomcat does not support this directly. Its not part of the Servlet or JSP Specification. If you do need this functionality see this thread or this link.

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