javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getStatus() not found

Question

I am working with an embedded Jetty server, deploying a Jersey REST api, and I am trying to log the errors, with log4J. When an error happens, for instance a URL not found,

Answer 1

You have a really old servlet-api jar present in your project.

javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse#getStatus() was added in Servlet 3.0

Add the following:

  javax.servlet
  javax.servlet-api
  3.1.0

Dump your dependencies and verify that you don't have multiple versions of the servlet-api jars present (this is common, as the maven coordinate space for the servlet-api jars have changed a few times over the past 10 years)

$ mvn dependency:tree