Hi Steve

Does this help ....?

webapps

`-- manager.xml

<!-- heavily edited -->
<web-app>
 <servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
   <servlet-class>
       org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher
   </servlet-class>

   <servlet-mapping>
               <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
               <url-pattern>*.m</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>

   <welcome-file-list>
               <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

A.

Steve, I think we're confusing packages, webapp names, and directory
trees.  Your problem has nothing to do with the Tomcat directory
structure.  The "package" part of the directory structure doesn't
start until you get down *below* the \ROOT\WEB-INF\classes folder.

If you want another web application other than the default (ROOT), a
simple way to do it is to create a directory under webapps, e.g.

...\webapps\MyApp\WEB-INF\classes

and then put your classes there.  If "MyServlet" looks like this:

  package com.steve.myapp;
     ...
  public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
     ...
  }

then the class should be located at

...\webapps\MyApp\WEB-INF\classes\com\steve\myapp\MyServlet.class

You then need to tell Tomcat what URL you want to use for the servlet.
The "MyApp" application needs a deployment descriptor (web.xml)
located in it's WEB-INF directory:

...\webapps\MyApp\WEB-INF\web.xml

that contains at least the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
  "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
  "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>

  <servlet>
     <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>com.steve.myapp.MyServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>/MyServlet</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Note that the url pattern is relative to the top of the web
application.

You will then be able to invoke your servlet from

http://localhost:8080/MyApp/MyServlet

(using the appropriate host name and port number, if not 80)

--
Phil Hanna
Author of JSP 2.0: The Complete Reference
http://www.philhanna.com