java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.startAsync

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Any idea why I'm getting this error at runtime ? I'm trying to deploy an AsyncServlet on Jetty.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.startAsync(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)Ljavax/servlet/AsyncContext;
        at my.server.SlowServlet.doGet(SlowServlet.java:16)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:705)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:814)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:547)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:480)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:119)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:520)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:227)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:941)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:409)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:186)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:875)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:117)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:250)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:149)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:110)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:345)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:441)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:919)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:582)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:218)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:51)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:586)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:44)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:598)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:533)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

I've the following Maven dependencies in my pom.xml

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
        <version>${jettyVersion}</version>
    </dependency>


    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
        <version>${jettyVersion}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-servlets</artifactId>
        <version>${jettyVersion}</version>
    </dependency>


    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-webapp</artifactId>
        <version>${jettyVersion}</version>
    </dependency>

Were you able to solve this problem? I'm running into the same issue and I was wondering if you were able to fix it. — Dawood, Aug 07 '12 at 21:08
I found the problem. There was a clash in my CLASSPATH with servlet apis from geromino-servlet_2.5_spec-1.1.2. — Soumya Simanta, Oct 27 '12 at 04:32

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '12 at 17:10

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I'm guessing your server is using the wrong version of the Servlet spec. AsyncContext is only available since Servlet spec v 3.0. You probably have the right version in your development environment, but your server uses an outdated version of the api, hence the error at runtime.

answered May 25 '12 at 17:10

Jeshurun

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Any idea how I can debug this. I'm using Maven and I thought that it should take care of both development and runtime dependencies. – Soumya Simanta May 25 '12 at 17:21
maven does, have you have to give it good information...try using > mvn -X install and that should give you the dependency tree, you might be getting 2.5 transitively from somewhere, in which case you just need to add an exclusion – jesse mcconnell May 25 '12 at 23:56
thanks. I used plugin to find the duplicates and replaced them with an exclusion. com.ning.maven.plugins maven-duplicate-finder-plugin. However, that still didn't solve my problem. – Soumya Simanta May 26 '12 at 10:08

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.startAsync

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