It looks as if it were a NetBeans problems. I'm not sure how the project became corrupted. The servlet was registered as part of the project but yet when the packaging took place the named servlet was not bundled. Should have had verified this earlier but I trusted NB when it showed that it was part of the package.
Thanks, S.D.
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