I am working on a JSP project that uses Apache Tomcat 7.
When running the project on its loading index.html it's OK, but when trying to navigate to another page it's showing the error:
The method getJspApplicationContext(ServletContext) is undefined for the type JspFactory
Please provide me a solution to get rid of this.
Get rid of any servletcontainer-specific libraries such as jsp-api.jar in your /WEB-INF/lib folder. This exception indicates that you've put servletcontainer-specific libraries of a container which supports only Servlet 2.4 / JSP 2.0 or older in there (the getJspApplicationContext() method was introduced in Servlet 2.5 / JSP 2.1). This is a major mistake. Those libraries don't belong in the webapp's classpath.
Perhaps you did this to overcome project compilation errors, which is indeed a pretty common beginner's mistake. This should have been solved differently, you should refer the target runtime in your project, not copy some libraries of an arbitrary servletcontainer make/version into your project. It would make your project incompatible with servletcontainers of a different make and/or version.
if you have a maven project try to add the following dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
You need to reference a server runtime in your project.
In Eclipse:
That should do it!
Note: See this Stack Overflow post for more details on this problem
I had similar error when working with an open source project using eclipse, the issue was with my tomcat version. I was using tomcat version 6. I had to setup a server using tomcat version 8 to resolve the issue.
this link was helpful Unable to compile class for JSP
