title: Issue after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 8
body: <p>I have a j2ee application with a web.xml having a default servlet to handle all requests.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;controller&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;gr.comp.pjx.controller.FrontController&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
  &lt;/servlet&gt;
  &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;controller&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The strange behavior is when the application's context is loaded. So, when netbeans loads <code>http://localhost:8080/my_application/</code> I see that my servlet class(i.e. <code>gr.comp.pjx.controller.FrontController</code>) does not catch the request. This was not the case when having Tomcat 6. In addition to this, when I manually enter a page url e.g. <code>http://localhost:8080/my_application/login.jsp</code> the same servlet class catches normally the request as it was expected.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a similar issue?  </p>