how to add the servlet api to my pom.xml

java maven-2 servlets pom.xml
flybywire picture flybywire · Sep 3, 2009 · Viewed 62.6k times · Source

How do I add the servlets API to my project's pom.xml

mvnrepository.com has lots of servlet api and similarly named projects, that I don't know which is the right one. Or are all of them ok?

Answer

digitaljoel picture digitaljoel · Sep 3, 2009

I believe most web/app servers come bundled with a version of the servlet api, so you won't want to bundle the api in your .war file. You will need to find out which version is included with your server, then you can use

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>${servlet-api-version}</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

replacing servlet-api-version with your version. You will want to specify the "provided" scope so the api.jar isn't included in your war file.

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