Servlets in Maven - maven

Question

In the Maven Webapp project, I created the servlet DiaServlet in the root directory of the project, i.e., the directory where pom.xml is.
Its description in web.xml is as follows:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DiaServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>DiaServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DiaServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/DiaServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
To this, I am getting the error:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: DiaServlet
One thing I tried is changing <servlet-class> tag to
<servlet-class>Prj.base.DiaServlet</servlet-class>
Here, Prj.base is the groupId of the project in the pom.xml file-- if this would be any concern(?)
<groupId>Dia.base</groupId>
The same servlet web.xml definition worked as is in a "non-Maven" web application.
When I created the servlet (I'm using NetScape), the servlet description wasn't added to the web.xml file although I'd checked to add it automatically.
Is this a problem of the build environment, or my servlet definition in web.xml (if so, how come the same definition worked in the other web application?) or something else?
new to Maven
TIA

Answer 1

You are a maven user, at the time of initialization of your project, you are giving package name as Dia.base, so your classes are resides in the Dia.base package only
So,
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DiaServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>Dia.base.DiaServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DiaServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/DiaServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
you need to give the fully qualified class name in the <servlet-class>