JSP's in Custom Menu items (6.5)

parsan99

Hello

In Teamsite 6.5, I am trying to call a custom JSP with java code from a Custom Menu item link. When specifying this in ui_custom.xml as follows,it works only if the jsp is pure HTML and has no java code. (which is ofcourse behaving as specified in th UI Customization guide)

<link id="cu.custom.copy"
label="Copy File or Article"
description="Custom - Copy File or Article"
url="/ccstd/customer/custom_copy.jsp"
target="_blank">
</link>

So I tried the other method of specifying the JSP in web.xml and then calling it like a servlet thru the link. I keep getting a 500 error with this approach

In web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CustomCopy</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/ccstd/customer/custom_copy.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CustomCopy</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>custom_copy</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

In ui_custom.xml ,

<link id="cu.custom.copy"
label="Copy File or Article"
description="Custom - Copy File or Article"
url="/custom_copy"
target="_blank">
</link>
Am I missing something here.?. Perhaps the location of jsp and the way its specified? My jsp file is in

/export/local/teamsite/iw-home/httpd/webapps/content_center/ccstd/customer and the web.xml is in

/export/local/teamsite/iw-home/local/config/lib/content_center/customer_src/etc/web.xml

Thanks in advance for any help on this.