HTTP Status 404 - /jktomcat/200100809/WEBINFO/classes/project/servlet/HelloServlet
type Status report

message /jktomcat/200100809/WEB-INFO/classes/project/servlet/HelloServlet

description The requested resource (/jktomcat/200100809/WEB-INFO/classes/project/servlet/HelloServlet) is not available.

the servlet is as follows

package project;

import java.io.*;

import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;

public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();

out.println("Hello, world!");
out.close();
}
}

the xml file is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>project.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/project/HelloServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

the directory
csweb\jktomcat\200100809\WEBINFO\
web.xml
classes
project\HelloServlet.class
lib
"library file that came with Tomcat"

i compiled the program outside the tomcat environment and and copied the class file into the project package. it compiled succefully.