move to tomcat 11, now see a jasper dependency

Rob Sargent <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:11:44 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am moving an app from tomcat 9.0.100+ to 11.0.5.  The conversion tool 
worked well and quickly got to a clean compile. At Tomcat.start() I get 
a stacktrace mentioning jasper.  There are no JSPs in my system:

    SEVERE: Servlet [jsp] in web application [/sgs] threw load() exception
    java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
         at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1225)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1056)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:474)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:457)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:139)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:753)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:693)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4177)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:4460)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1162)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1158)
         at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
         at
    org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:81)
         at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:145)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:714)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:780)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1162)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1158)
         at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
         at
    org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:81)
         at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:145)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:714)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:201)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:410)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:864)
         at
    org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
         at org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat.start(Tomcat.java:435)
         at
    edu.utah.camplab.server.SGSSelector.kickOff(SGSSelector.java:186)
         at edu.utah.camplab.server.SGSSelector.run(SGSSelector.java:198)
         at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)


    where lines 186/186 are:
         embeddedTomcat.start();
         embeddedTomcat.getServer().await();