One other thing to consider - some web app containers have issues with deploying servlets that do not have a package name. Assigning a package name will help. I recall having a discussion about this in this forum quite some time ago with the solution being to add a package. Example: Add this to the servlet's source: package foo; | // rest of servlet source as you posted Change servlet stanza in the web.xml to: <servlet> | <servlet-name>IsItWorking</servlet-name> | <servlet-class>foo.IsItWorking</servlet-class> | </servlet> Change your ww.war to contain: WEB-INF/web.xml WEB-INF/classes/foo/IsItWorking.class View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184877#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...