[Opensource] Tomcat and DefaultServlet

[Vincent Gogan]

Sorry if this is a little off topic but you never know...

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has had any success in customizing
Tomcat's
DefaultServlet, especially working with Expresso. I tried what I thought was
the obvious thing to do but didn't get very far.

That is,
	- I copied the source for DefaultServlet
	- Got it to compile
	- Modified the global web.xml
	- Fiddled with the classpath for Tomcat (added
webapps/blah/WEB-INF/classes)

The result is "an exception during startup processing" 

	Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
			org/apache/struts/tiles/ActionComponentServlet

Any ideas on a next step? Am I screwing things up by making such a change to
the classpath? Should I just be moving some .class files or a jar file to
either
Server/lib or common/lib? I know there is some disconnect in that I want the
DefaultServlet to be a part of a single context.

My goal, if anyone has any other solutions, is to have more precise control
over
how URL's map to the application. 

Thanks,

Vincent