Jar file failed to load in tomcat webapps

Question

This is what the error i got when i try to deploy maven project to tomcat

mvn tomcat7:deploy 

Error :

INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Softwares\tomcat\apache-tomcat-7.0.50\webapps\myWebApp_ 1\WEB-INF\lib\javax.servlet-api-3.0.1.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 3. 0, section 10.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class 

But the javax.servlet-api-3.0.1.jar is there in WEB-INF\lib Thanks

Answer 1

INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Softwares\tomcat\apache-tomcat-7.0.50\webapps\myWebApp_ 1\WEB-INF\lib\javax.servlet-api-3.0.1.jar) - jar not loaded

Servlet3.0 is already shipped with the tomcat inside its lib folder and by default tomcat will always load the servlet jar present there. Thats why you are getting the warning that tomcat is not loading your jar inside the project.

Simple solution : If you are using maven, set its scope as provided inside the pom.xml and maven will not place it in the WEB-INF/lib of your project. Something like

<dependency>     <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>     <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>     <version>3.0</version>     <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> 

Answer 2

Precise explanation by Saif asif.

I was using gradle as the build tool. It worked for me to exclude the tomcat-servlet-api.jar which is by default provided by tomcat.

You need to know which of your dependency is transitively adding tomcat-servlet-api.jar to the war and then exclude it using following

 compile ('your dependency goes here') {         exclude module:'tomcat-servlet-api'     }