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

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 !!

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  1. Saikiran

    Worked like charm 😉

  2. Andy Rodriguez

    Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu it worked for me!

  3. sree

    It Worked but after using this solution my tomcat server is not working.

  4. Henri

    Thank so much! It worked!

  5. Andy uwem

    thank you so much it worked for me

  6. Tanveer Ray

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

  7. Shivam

    Thank you. worked for me.

  8. José Compadre Junior

    Thanks for this tutorial. Saved my day!

  9. sulabh

    Thank you very much.

  10. Pooja Lakkihal

    thankyu so much man..

  11. Deepak Maddeshiya

    Thanks !

  12. Prajakta

    Thanks Lokesh………….

  13. Doug

    What is the difference between the two solutions?

  14. Tarun Punjabi

    Thanks a lot man !!!!

  15. Milward Kadzitaye

    Thanks man Solved my problem

  16. Jyoti Gurjar

    Thanks for Posting this solution. It worked for me.

  17. Lokesh Kumar

    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)

      • Lokesh Kumar

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

    • samir

      Great Man. Problem resolved.

  18. Sanku

    Thank you..its work for me

  19. Marumo

    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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