java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest [duplicate]

Question

I get the following error:

06/08/2011 02:56:33 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet UploadTheme threw exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletRequestContext.getContentType(ServletRequestContext.java:73)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.<init>(FileUploadBase.java:905)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getItemIterator(FileUploadBase.java:331)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase.parseRequest(FileUploadBase.java:351)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload.parseRequest(ServletFileUpload.java:126)
    at cs236369.hw5.servlets.xml.UploadTheme.doPost(UploadTheme.java:47)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I place JARS under WEB-INF/lib. Here's what the project classpath looks like:

And here's the run configuration:

Trouble started when I added FileUpload.
Any idea what's wrong?

Answer 1

You don't need the commons-upload jar files in the server's run configuration. I suspect that this is the reason for this problem, because there is some visibility of classes issue between the classloader that loaded the file-upload class and the one trying to load the servlet specific classes.

You should get rid of it and leave it as part of the WEB-INF/lib. Hopefully that fixes your problem.