portlet unavailable when adding servlet-api.jar to my project

Asked Jul 21 '12 at 12:00

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i inherited a legacy application deployed on websphere. part of my task is to create a servlet. however when after checking out the project from SVN and creating my servlet, i get a Portlet Unavailable error.

When i removed the servlet-api.jar, the portlet is working properly again. however, my servlet won't run anymore as the project does not have the servlet jar file. naturally, all references to the said jar file now generates cannot be resolved errors.

i then checked existing servlets created by the previous programmer and found that they do not have the above mentioned errors. the only difference i can see is that the IDE, IBM RAD, has yellow arrows besides these lines of code:

Working Servlet

while mine has these:

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have you ever encountered this?

asked Jul 21 '12 at 12:00

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You shouldn't need to deploy your own servlet jar, that should be provided by the container.you should only need that during compilation. – Dave Newton Jul 21 '12 at 12:11
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There is no such class javax.servlet.http.getServletContext – Reimeus Jul 21 '12 at 12:12
@DaveNewton so having errors in the IDE regarding missing jar files is fine? – user571099 Jul 21 '12 at 12:34
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4076601/how-do-i-import-the-javax-servlet-api-in-my-eclipse-project – BalusC Jul 21 '12 at 13:02
@user571099 It won't compile then; see Balus' answer. What I *said* was that you shouldn't*deploy* your own servlet jars. – Dave Newton Jul 21 '12 at 15:04

portlet unavailable when adding servlet-api.jar to my project

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