title: How does Tomcat find the HOME PAGE of my Web App?
body: <p>I am just getting started to learn about Web Apps and deploying them to Tomcat. So I started with a sample web app project - made up of struts, hibernate, etc., etc.</p>
  <p>The ANT build was successful. Also, was able to deploy the web app through an xml under Catalina/host. I am able to open the web site with no issues.</p>
  <p>This is the structure of my web app</p>
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>-exploded
  
       -WEB-INF
  
            -classes
  
            -lib
  
            -web.xml
  
      -index.jsp
  
      -welcome.html
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  <p>My question is</p>
  <p><strong>How does Tomcat know</strong> which is the first page / starting page / home page that it is supposed to open? Which file is this specified in?</p>