I have developed a dynamic web project in eclipse. Now I can access it through my browser using the following url:

http://localhost:8080/MyDynamicWebApp

Now I want to change the access url to

http://localhost:8080/app

I changed the context root from the project properties | Web Project Settings | Context Root

But it is not working. The web app still has the access url as earlier. I have re-deployed the application on tomcat, re-started the tomcat and have done everything that should be done but the access url is the same as earlier.

I found that there were no server.xml file attached with the WARfile. The how the tomcat is determining that the context root of my web app is /MyDynamicWebApp and is allowing me to access the application through that url