Servlet no eclipse

Oie, uilizo o lomboz no eclipse, gostaria de saber como compilar servlets. Posso compilar como uma classe normal ? Pois qnd compilo normal ,ou seja, “Run…” aparece a seguinte mensagem no console:

:arrow: Bootstrap: Class loader creation threw exception

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.<clinit>(ClassLoaderFactory.java:63)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:196)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:402)
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException (Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException) (Caused by org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException (Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException))
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:543)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:235)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:209)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:351)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.compat.JdkCompat.<clinit>(JdkCompat.java:55)
… 4 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException (Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getLogConstructor(LogFactoryImpl.java:397)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:529)
… 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getLogConstructor(LogFactoryImpl.java:374)
… 9 more

vc compila normalmente… vc precisa do de um build.xml

Inté +

Mas o web.xml nao eh apenas para executar? Meu problema esta sendo compilar o servlet no eclipse ! O web.xml eh necessario tambem para compilar ?

Falow…

Desculpe foi mau… na verdade vc precisa do ant…