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[Solved] The superclass “javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet” was not found on the Java Build Path in Eclipse

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If you are facing this error after importing an existing maven project into your eclipse IDE, then it means that http-servlet is not available in the project’s class path and you must include it.

Error looks like this.

Java Build Path Error
Java Build Path Error

Solution

To include http-servlet into your class path, you have two options:

1) Add target runtime

In this solution, you can add desired server runtime into your application as project facet. As runtime servers have already servlet runtime dependencies, they get included into your project and hence error is gone.

Update Project Runtime

2) Add maven dependency

Another option is include the servlet dependency through maven itself. This will also fix the error.

<dependency>
	<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
	<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
	<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>

Happy Learning !!

Feedback, Discussion and Comments

  1. I tried this but did not work. do we have any other solution?

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  2. Thank you. worked for me.

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  3. Thanks for this tutorial. Saved my day!

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  4. Thank you very much.

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  5. thankyu so much man..

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  6. Thanks !

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  7. Thanks Lokesh………….

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  8. What is the difference between the two solutions?

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  9. Thanks a lot man !!!!

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  10. Thanks man Solved my problem

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  11. Thanks for Posting this solution. It worked for me.

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  12. 27-Jan-2016 12:17:06.629 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-13] org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process Error processing request
    java.lang.IllegalStateException: The resources may not be accessed if they are not currently started
    at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.validate(StandardRoot.java:232)
    at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:199)
    at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:193)
    at org.apache.catalina.mapper.Mapper.internalMapWrapper(Mapper.java:918)
    at org.apache.catalina.mapper.Mapper.internalMap(Mapper.java:808)
    at org.apache.catalina.mapper.Mapper.map(Mapper.java:667)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.postParseRequest(CoyoteAdapter.java:862)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:521)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1078)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:655)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:222)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1566)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1523)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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      • After configure whole project in eclipse, i included >javax.servlet dependency. Then found the above error with code 500 on UI- Network.

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    • Great Man. Problem resolved.

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  13. Thank you..its work for me

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  14. Thanks for the solution to the problem “The superclass “javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet” was not found on the Java Build Path in Eclipse”

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