jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class

Question

I am running a Maven project which is also a dynamic web project. I have used all Spring libraries in Maven. I created web.xml, but when I start my Tomcat 7 ser

Answer 1

I've been struggling with this issue and I've tried numerous "solutions".

However, in the end, the only one that worked and it actually took a few seconds to do it was to: delete and add back new server instance!

Basically, I right clicked on my Tomcat server in Eclipse under Servers and deleted it. Next, I've added a new Tomcat server. Cleaned and redeployed the application and I got rid of this error.