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[RESOLVED]The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found [message #1781865]

Tue, 13 February 2018 19:35

Eclipse User

I have created a Enterprise Application Project in Eclipse Oxygen JEE and brought some JSP source code into the project. I'm getting error messages from my JSP files that all say,

Quote:

The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found on the Java Build Path

I searched the internet and found a few references to this problem, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22756153/the-superclass-javax-servlet-http-httpservlet-was-not-found-on-the-java-build.

I found that the problem is due to Eclipse's failure to find jsp_api.jar in tomcat, but the recommended solutions did not work. These suggestions included selecting the project and enter preferences --> project facets --> runtime environment and rebuilding and adding jsp_api.jar to the build path.

I tried these, but have not been successful.

Is there something else to try?

Jim

[Updated on: Thu, 15 February 2018 10:39] by Moderator

Re: [RESOLVED]The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found [message #1781997 is a reply to message #1781865]

Thu, 15 February 2018 10:41

Eclipse User

I added the tomcat/lib/servlet-api.jar file to my build path. This is the jar file that contains "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet".

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