JBridge: Certification Question Of The Day

Suppose the following servlet mapping is set up for a web application called “music”:

<servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-name>PlayPiece</servlet-name>
	<url-pattern>/PlayPiece</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The Answer

A and C are the correct answers.
The URL in answer B would result in an HTTP 404 (page/resource not found) error, as the servlet mapping does not cater for any path information following the servlet name (it would have to be set up as /PlayPiece/* to allow path information).
Although it would not be impossible for the real path information in D to be ‘//myHost/music/PlayPiece”, it’s very unlikely. The real path information would give the full path within the file system where the resource ‘PlayPiece’ is located (e.g. ‘C:\Java\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\webapps\music\PlayPiece’ given a Windows directory structure).