Evo jednog primera web.xml za aplikaciju kreiranu u Spring frameworku. Mislim da ce ti biti jasnije.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>training</display-name>
<!-- Servlet configuration -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>training</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Context Configuration -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/training-data.xml, /WEB-INF/classes/training-services.xml, /WEB-INF/classes/training-acegi.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>training</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- Welcom file list -->
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<!-- Filter Chain Proxy Configuration -->
<filter>
<filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>targetBean</param-name>
<param-value>filterChainProxy</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Error page -->
<error-page>
<exception-type>java.lang.Exception</exception-type>
<location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<!-- Tag Lib Configuration -->
<jsp-config>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/tlds/c.tld</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tlds/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</jsp-config>
</web-app>