Eclipse - The import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest cannot be resolved

[Jon Koon]

I just switched to plain old Eclipse from MyEclipse for development, and my struts application was running great. But now I am getting this error "The import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest cannot be resolved" over and over again but inconsistently. Sometimes my app runs with no problems and sometimes I get the error. A lot of times I can fix it by removing the project from the server and then adding it again within the Eclipse -> Server interface. It is an especially painful issue, becuase it is inconsistent.

Here is an excerpt of the error

SEVERE: Error creating form bean of class com.****.struts.beans.*********
java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
The import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest cannot be resolved

I'm new to the forum, so I appreciate any guidance.

[William Brogden]

Sounds like an eclipse classpath problem to me, not a servlet or Tomcat problem.

Bill

[Bear Bibeault]

Please be sure to ask IDE questions in the IDEs forum. I have moved this post there for you.

[Jon Koon]

Sorry about that. Thanks for moving the post for me.

I have added j2ee.jar and javaee.jar to the classpath, but I still get the error every time I make a change to the source code and the context is reloaded into Tomcat.

[Edit]

So I think that I just misunderstood how Eclipse interacts with Tomcat. This FAQ helped out a lot.