index.jsp default in Java EE project in Netbeans, where?

Question

I create a simple web application in Netbeans, named WebApplication1. There is a file created, named index.jsp. When I run the app, browser goes to index.

Answer 1

In Netbeans by default, if you create a project with no added frameworks, no deployment descriptor(web.xml) is provided. To change it, right click on the project and select New>Other>web>Standard Deployment Descriptor(web.xml)

Now edit the web.xml and set

    newjsp.jsp

In order to change the default to newjsp.jsp

UPDATE

Explicitly for tomcat....

If no web.xml is provided in the application, the default web.xml($CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml) of Tomcat is supplied to the application. This deployment descriptor has the following lines:

 
    index.html 
    index.htm     
    index.jsp 

That is why the index.jsp is shown by default