Intellij Java cannot find symbol

Question

I have a problem with my Intellij project.

I've already updated my Java JDK and JRE. Someone have another solution?

Thanks.

Do you have https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/servlet-api attached to your sources? — Beri, Aug 01 '18 at 09:33
Try with this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25589152/intellij-idea-cannot-resolve-import-javax-servlet — InExperience, Aug 01 '18 at 09:34
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-and-running-your-first-java-ee-application.html — Stephen C, Aug 01 '18 at 09:35
May be you need following dependency javax.servlet javax.servlet-api 4.0.1 provided — Ashot Karakhanyan, Aug 01 '18 at 09:36
Here some suggests, follow the link below: [click me](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9193228/compile-error-package-javax-servlet-does-not-exist) — InExperience, Aug 01 '18 at 09:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '18 at 09:36

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If you have already imported this project as maven. Do mvn idea:idea

Else add framework support > maven and then do mvn clean/mvn idea:idea

answered Aug 01 '18 at 09:36

Tamanna Bhasin

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It's not imported as maven. – Thomas Wouters Aug 01 '18 at 09:38
If its not maven, is it some other build framework like gradle? – Tamanna Bhasin Aug 01 '18 at 09:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '18 at 12:06

If you do not use Mven or Gradle for dependency management, add the dependency on the javax.servlet-api.jar to the module's dependencies manually.

If you use application server (e.g. Tomcat) you should to define it in IDE and IDE will create java-ee library that you can then add to the module's dependencies:

Intellij Java cannot find symbol

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