Spring boot: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getHttpServletMapping()Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletMapping;

Question

When I run this application on built-in server or other tomcat server it gives me following error message. I am using jdk8, STS V-3.9.7. Can someone help me resolve it

Answer 1

I think there is a version mismatch (possibly a Bug?) in Spring Boot.

Spring Boot 2.1.X uses Tomcat 9 which has the Servlet API v4.
But Spring Boot Web 2.1.X still incorporates Servlet API v3.1.

You should solve the problem by downgrading the spring-boot-starter-tomcat to version 2.0.X.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.7.RELEASE</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

Edit:
It might as well work just to change the Tomcat version property.

    <properties>
        <tomcat.version>8.5.37</tomcat.version>
    <properties>

Answer 2

merge your DemoAppApplication with servlet initializer as follow:

@SpringBootApplication
public class DemoAppApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer{

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(DemoAppApplication.class, args);
}

@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
    return application.sources(DemoAppApplication.class);
}

}

or add @Configuration annotation to class that extends SpringBootServletInitializer

Answer 3

I had a similar problem and the cause was the jsp-api didn't fit to the corresponding servlet-api version. As Sven Döring already mentioned Spring Boot 2.1.x uses Tomcat 9 which uses/provides Servlet API v4. For this you need jsp-api 2.3.3 otherwise you can get the NoSuchMethodError.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.3</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

More info about the version matching can be found here: The ultimate Java version table (J2EE, Java EE, Servlet, JSP, JSTL) Unfortunately Tomcat 9 and Servlet-API 4 is missing in this list.

Answer 4

Below Fix Worked for me. Thanks Sven Döring

<properties>
        <tomcat.version>8.5.37</tomcat.version>
    <properties>

Answer 5

I'd like to add to answer of Sven Döring solution for gradle:

compile(group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-web', version: springVer) {
    exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
}
compile(group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-tomcat', version: springTomcatVer)

At this point, I set the params:

springVer='2.1.8.RELEASE'
springTomcatVer='2.0.9.RELEASE'