many url-pattern for the same servlet

Question

I need to map the same servlet on two different url. I used netbeans 7.0.1 for managing my whole project, so I used its friendly interface to modify the web.xml file. What n

Answer 1

I guess it has more to do with the servlet spec the container/netbeans is using rather than being an issue with the container. Your net beans seems to be using the spec 2.5 to construct the servlet mapping and hence you get

   fred
   *.jsp
   /url

Read more about this here. It says

Previous versions of the servlet schema allows only a single url-pattern in a filter mapping.For filters mapped to multiple URLs this results in needless repetition of whole mapping clauses.