[kaffe] NoSuchMethodError: javax/servlet/ServletContext.setAttribute

[Greg Wooledge]

When I updated my CVS Kaffe source tree today and used it to restart
my Freenet node (stable branch), I got the following errors:

18-Apr-03 7:27:56 PM (freenet.node.Main, main, ERROR): Failed to load service: mainport
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/servlet/ServletContext.setAttribute(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
        at freenet.interfaces.servlet.ServletContainer.createServletContext(ServletContainer.java:140)
        at freenet.interfaces.servlet.MultipleHttpServletContainer.loadContext(MultipleHttpServletContainer.java:183)
        at freenet.interfaces.servlet.MultipleHttpServletContainer.init(MultipleHttpServletContainer.java:154)
        at freenet.node.Main.loadService(Main.java:1486)
        at freenet.node.Main.startNode(Main.java:1404)
        at freenet.node.Main.main(Main.java:865)

18-Apr-03 7:27:56 PM (freenet.node.Main, main, ERROR): Failed to load service: distribution
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/servlet/ServletContext.setAttribute(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
        at freenet.interfaces.servlet.ServletContainer.createServletContext(ServletContainer.java:140)
        at freenet.interfaces.servlet.SingleHttpServletContainer.init(SingleHttpServletContainer.java:52)
        at freenet.node.Main.loadService(Main.java:1486)
        at freenet.node.Main.startNode(Main.java:1404)
        at freenet.node.Main.main(Main.java:865)

Since this same Freenet build worked with Kaffe before I updated
CVS, I suspect that a change in Kaffe is the immediate cause, but
I'm writing to both projects' lists just in case there is some
deeper problem in Freenet which is merely being exposed by a more
rigorous Java platform.

javax.servlet.ServletContext is part of the freenet-ext.jar file,
defined thus:

package javax.servlet;
public interface ServletContext {
    ...
    public void setAttribute(String name, Object object);
}

I don't understand why this error is occurring, given this definition.
It certainly looks all right to me.  So, being a simple but practical
person, I did a 'cvs -z3 update -dP -D "1 day ago"' (CVS/Tag =
D2003.04.17.23.42.42) and built that and used it.  Freenet then
started normally again.

-- 
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
greg at wooledge.org              |    - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
http://wooledge.org/~greg/     |
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