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

Solved On my mac with java 8 was facing issue with downloaded tomcat from site and unzip.

My issue got solved because there was a extra servlet-api.jar file which was getting picked up. It was coming from /Library/Java/Extensions/servlet-api.jar

For finding it in your system you can use sudo find / -name servlet-api.jar

Removed it by backing it up somewhere else.

I was following this for intallation https://gist.github.com/ddanailov-nmdp/c97aba2ca926b9627f6b4f7174083a32