Tomcat - won't load my META-INF\services\javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer file?

Question

I have a web project that has a \\META-INF\\services\\javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer file with its content pointing to the fully qualified name of a

Answer 1

The first thing to check is that you are actually using Servlet 3.0 and not an earlier version. For Tomcat, this means that you must be using Tomcat 7.0.22

Second, make sure that the \META-INF\services\javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer file actually exists in the exploded war file.

Third, when in doubt, configure and start Tomcat directly (not from Eclipse) - I've seen developers have endless problems with configuration of Tomcat using the Eclipse plugin.