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

Wed, 14 February 2018 00:35

Jim Anderson

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Registered: October 2014

Senior Member

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 15:39]

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