The type javax.servlet.ServletContext and javax.servlet.ServletException cannot be resolved

Question

I\'m trying to include Spring Security to my web project, i\'m following this tutorial http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/guides/html5//helloworld.html<

Answer 1

try setting the updated parent, like this:

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-parent
    1.3.6.RELEASE
    

this solved for me.