java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.startAsync
java, jetty, servlet-3.0
Solution
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 You probably have the right version in your development environment, but your server uses an outdated version of the api, hence the error at runtime.
Problem
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> ```