Scalatra provides a nice way of getting you out of the business of declaring your servlets and servlet mappings in the web.xml file. Simply create a boilerplate web.xml file like this in the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF directory

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee ↵
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<listener>
<listener-class>org.scalatra.servlet.ScalatraListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/img/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/css/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/js/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/assets/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>