JBoss is failing to run JSPs with java.lang.AbstractMethodError

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Issue

  • Application working fine on tomcat 5.5
  • After successfully deploying same application on jboss-eap-5.1.2 when try to hit any jsp page of application it's giving following exception:
"javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory.getJspApplicationContext(Ljavax/servlet/ServletContext;)Ljavax/servlet/jsp/JspApplicationContext;
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:257)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.x
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
    • Tomcat 6, 7

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