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

Exclusions and provided dependencies will not work in child projects.

If you are using inheritance in Maven projects you must include this configuration on the parent pom.xml file. You will have a ... section in your pom.xml if you are using inheritance. So you will have something like this in your parent pom.xml:

some.groupId
1.0
someArtifactId
pom

    child-module-1
    child-module-2


    
        javax.servlet
        servlet-api
        2.5
        provided
    
    
        javax.servlet.jsp
        jsp-api
        2.1
        provided