javax.servlet-api not found jetty

[sahil3390]

Hi Team,

We have a question regarding the Jetty 3PP used in our product. Currently, we are using Jetty version 9.4.56, which depends on javax.servlet-api-3.1.jar. However, as stated on the Jetty 3PP homepage, we downloaded the package from the link "https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.56.v20240826" but could not find the javax.servlet-api-3.1.jar file in the downloaded package.

Could you clarify why javax.servlet-api-3.1.jar is not included in the Jetty package if Jetty v9.4.56 relies on it?

We look forward to your prompt response.

[sbordet]

@sahil3390 Jetty 9.4.x is at end of community support, see:

• EoCS (End of Community Support) for Jetty 9 - June 2022 #7958

Please upgrade to Jetty 12.

FTR. the javax.servlet classes are present, just in a different jar.

[sahil3390]

Thanks for the quick support.

Can please mention in which jar we can find the javax.servlet classes, i tried search in the source but unable to find it.

[olamy]

You can download javax.servlet classes from https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/servlet/javax.servlet-api/

[sahil3390]

Does this mean that we need to download javax.servlet-api compatible version with jetty 9.4.56 separately from: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/servlet/javax.servlet-api/ and it is not part of the jetty.project-jetty-9.4.56.v20240826.tar.gz present on github?

[olamy]

As far as I can see it's part of the jetty-distribution

olamy@pop-os:~/dev/sources/jetty/jetty.project/target$  unzip -l jetty-distribution-9.4.56.v20240826.zip | grep servlet-api
    95806  2024-08-26 13:21   jetty-distribution-9.4.56.v20240826/lib/servlet-api-3.1.jar

[sahil3390]

if i am not wrong jetty-distribution is part of jetty.project-jetty-9.4.56, right?

[sbordet]

@sahil3390 the package you downloaded from GitHub is the Jetty source code, which does not produce the Servlet APIs.

The jetty-home artifact that you can download from Maven Central contains the Servlet API jar.

Update to Jetty 12 and read the documentation:
https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/operations-guide/begin/index.html