I am a newbie to servlets. I created a dynamic web project in eclipse. I have following files in my project home.html validateServlet.java I have defined validated servlet as an action in home.html form. However when I run it, I get http status 404. Below is the hierarchy of my project Project Java Resources src com.servlets ValidateServlet.java build WebContent META-INF WEB-INF web.xml hello.html Contents of my web.xml are as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web- app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"> <display-name>Website</display-name> <servlet> <description></description> <display-name>ValidateServlet</display-name> <servlet-name>validate</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.oracle.coen235.servlets.ValidateServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> </web-app> In my hello.html, action is specified as , What might be the issue? I guess I am not able to generate the class file for my servlet. Can anyone guide me through this problem?