HTTP Status 500 - Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:

Question

I have application which has jsp and html page

@Controller
public class LoginController {
    @RequestMapping(value = "/welcome", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String welcome() {
        System.out.println("==============21=========");
        return "welcome";
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String redirect() {
        System.out.println("==========1======");
        return "redirect:/LoginPage.html";
    }
}

when page returned to HTML page I am getting

HTTP Status 500 - Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getHeader(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;

but when it redirect to /welcome no such error occur

complete log

 type Exception report

message Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getHeader(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getHeader(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String; org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.triggerAfterCompletionWithError(DispatcherServlet.java:1303) org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:977) org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:970) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:861) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:846) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:723) root cause

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getHeader(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String; org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified(ServletWebRequest.java:187) org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler.handleRequest(ResourceHttpRequestHandler.java:240) org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter.handle(HttpRequestHandlerAdapter.java:51) org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959) org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:970) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:861) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:846) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:723) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.48 logs.

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.test</groupId>

    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Hibernate -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Apache Commons DBCP -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Spring ORM -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- AspectJ -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
            <version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/jstl/jstl -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>jstl</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>


        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>${jdk.version}</source>
                    <target>${jdk.version}</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

    </build>
    <properties>
        <spring.version>4.2.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <security.version>4.0.3.RELEASE</security.version>
        <jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version>
        <hibernate.version>4.3.5.Final</hibernate.version>
        <org.aspectj-version>1.7.4</org.aspectj-version>
    </properties>
</project>

Please let me know where I am failing.

Answer 1

HttpServletResponse.getHeader is a method in the servlet 3.0 specification. I'm guessing there is an incompatibility with your runtime environment. Try adding this to your pom.

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

If that doesn't work try tweaking whatever runtime you have set up with your IDE. Are you explicitly telling it to run on any particular server? Make sure it is compatible with servlet 3.0. So if using Tomcat for example, make sure it's at least Tomcat 7.