Getting NoSuchMethodError:javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()

Question

I am facing an issue during deployment of a service in Tomcat 8. Getting following error :

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.Ser

Answer 1

Spring boot will run tomcat 7 per default, you have to override maven build tomcat.version in your pom.xml. See below to run tomcat 8.0.30

  8.0.30

Should fix your problem.