Jetty:run fails with NoSuchMethodError with Spring 5

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I am trying to update my web application to current libraries. When I upgraded Spring from 3.1.1 to 5.0.0 it started to fail with:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getStatus()I
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.publishRequestHandledEvent(FrameworkServlet.java:1083)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1009)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:881)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:855)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1221)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:200)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)

I have found two relevant questions:

which explained a lot and I have upgraded jetty and servlet spec. But my app keeps failing.

Dependencies:

[INFO] +- org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.5:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.5:compile
[INFO] +- ch.qos.logback:logback-core:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] +- ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.codehaus.janino:janino:jar:2.6.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.codehaus.janino:commons-compiler:jar:2.6.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |     \- org.springframework:spring-jcl:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:5.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:jar:3.1.0:provided
[INFO] +- com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.2.2:compile
[INFO] \- junit:junit:jar:4.10:test
[INFO]    \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.1:test

Maven:

    <spring.framework.version>5.0.0.RELEASE</spring.framework.version>
    <maven-jetty-plugin.version>6.1.26</maven-jetty-plugin.version>
    <servlet.api.version>3.1.0</servlet.api.version>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>${servlet.api.version}</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

<build>
    <finalName>smartpos-backend-device</finalName>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>install</id>
                    <phase>install</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>sources</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${maven-jetty-plugin.version}</version>

            <configuration>
                <jettyEnvXml>src/main/resources/jetty/jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>
                <contextPath>smartpos-json</contextPath>
                <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>

                <connectors>
                    <connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
                        <port>8080</port>
                    </connector>
                </connectors>
                <systemProperties>
                    <systemProperty>
                        <name>logback.configurationFile</name>
                        <value>logback.xml</value>
                    </systemProperty>
                    <systemProperty>
                        <name>LOG_PATH</name>
                        <value>.</value>
                    </systemProperty>
                </systemProperties>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Spring 5 requires a servlet 3.1 or higher container, Jetty 6 is a 2.5 container. So it will simply not work you need to upgrade to the latest Jetty version. You will need to switch to the `jetty-maven-plugin` instead of the old `maven-jetty-plugin`. — M. Deinum, Oct 20 '17 at 11:03
Can you write it as answer? I can start it now without error. But I have to solve 404 for my servlet. RequestMappingHandlerMapping Mapped "{[/handshake],methods=[POST],produces=[application/json;charset=UTF-8]}" onto public void controller.DeviceJsonController.performHandShake(java.lang.String,javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) throws java.io.IOException — Leos Literak, Oct 20 '17 at 12:08

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '17 at 12:18

Spring 5 requires a Servlet 3.1 container as a bare minimum however as you are using Jetty 6.1 which is (at most) a Servlet 2.5 container. So that is obviously not going to work.

You will have to upgrade your Jetty version. To upgrade instead of the maven-jetty-plugin you will need to use the appropriate jetty-maven-plugin (the name has changed) and it is part of Eclipse now.

<maven-jetty-plugin.version>9.4.7.v20170914</maven-jetty-plugin.version>

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
    <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-jetty-plugin.version}</version>
</plugin>

This should use the latest version of both the plugin and thus Jetty.

Thanks. I have created new question for compatibility issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46849304/spring-dispatcher-not-called-in-jetty-maven-plugin — Leos Literak, Oct 20 '17 at 12:41

Veselin Davidov · Answer 2 · 2017-10-20T10:58:26.180

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My bad I got it wrong. I think the problem is your jetty version:

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.mortbay.jetty/jetty/6.1.26

Here the servlet API is 2.5 and when you add dependency in Maven and mark it with provided scope it means the required JARs will be provided on a later stage and not packed with the war. So the code compiles properly in the IDE and development but when you try to run it with jetty it uses the actual servlet-api coming from the jetty version. And for that method you need servlet-api version 3 or above

edited Oct 20 '17 at 10:58

answered Oct 20 '17 at 10:54

Veselin Davidov

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compile error :-) package javax.servlet.http does not exist – Leos Literak Oct 20 '17 at 10:55

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