How can eclipse find 'javax.servlet' when using the gradle with plugins 'war' and 'jetty'

Question

This must be very basic. But I just don't know how to make it work.

I'm following the book "Gradle in Action". When making the webapp the following is put in the build.gradle file

dependencies {
    providedCompile 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5',
            'javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api:2.1'
    runtime 'javax.servlet:jstl:1.1.2',
            'taglibs:standard:1.1.2'
}

I'm using eclipse. But it seems eclipse can't find javax.servlet . In cmd , I'm still able to run gradle jettyRun . Am I missing something? Thanks ahead!

Answer 1

apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'

is probably missing in your build.gradle . I suppose you have WTP (Web Tools Platform) plugins installed into your Eclipse.