Spring Cloud (4) | NoSuchMethodError:javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()

the method getVirtualServerName has been added in ServletContext in Servlet 3.1. Find the java doc’s method getVirtualServerName

this problem can have at least 3 causes:

1. your servlet version is older that 3.1.

2. other jar has the servlet older version than 3.1.

3. your tomcat version is older than 8

to solve it, you can try the below way.

I. to check your pom.xml whether there are the below code.

  <dependency>
	   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
	   <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
       <version>3.