How does Tomcat find the HOME PAGE of my Web App?

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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.

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.

This is the structure of my web app

-exploded

     -WEB-INF

          -classes

          -lib

          -web.xml

    -index.jsp

    -welcome.html

My question is

How does Tomcat know which is the first page / starting page / home page that it is supposed to open? Which file is this specified in?

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