Question

I am getting compilation error in servlet class while attempting to compile a program.
The error is

    Access restriction: The type HttpServlet is not accessible 
due to restriction on required library D:\Temp\eclipse\plugins\javax.servlet_2.5.0.v201103041518.jar

The error I am getting in the first line itself-

public class Servlet extends HttpServlet

I am using Eclipse indigo and Apache Tomcat 7 for running this code. As I am new to servlet so I am not familiar with this error. Please help me figuring this out.

Answer 1

“Servlet” is already the name of an interface in the Servlet API. If you look at the API Javadoc you can see that in fact javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet implements javax.servlet.Servlet. Try using a different name for you class, such as MyServlet