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You learn how to define a servlet in
Segment 1041. Once you have written a collection of
servlets and have written or augmented a servlets.properties file,
you need to know where to put them. Unfortunately, the place will depend
on the servlet server that you happen to use. If you happen to use a servlet server
supplied by Sun Microsystems, Inc., then the
servlets.properties file belongs in a directory named
WEB-INF, a subdirectory of the servlet server directory, and all your
servlets belong in a directory named servlets, a subdirectory of the WEB-INF directory.
If you have divided your servlets into packages, however, then
servlets acts as though it were on your CLASSPATH, as
described in Chapter 35, and your servlets belong in subdirectories
of the servlets directory corresponding to your package names.
Of course, you can tell the servlet server to look in a place other than the default place for servlets; In general, however, you would be wise to run your servlet server with the default location, inasmuch as software developers tend to test software mostly with the defaults.
See the Software page at the end of this book for information on how to download a servlet server.