Tomcat failing to deploy .war

Question

I\'m trying to follow this tutorial on creating a simple REST web service, however I get to deploying it on tomcat and it throws an exception:

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Answer 1

As the above comment shows, the problem turned out to be that the application web.xml referenced a java class in a servlet definition. The problem was corrected by making sure the application actually contained that class. The missing jar file was located and put in the WEB-INF/lib directory.