Servlet not working on WebSphere 8.x - servlets

Question

I have the following class...
package org.me.test
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
#WebServlet("/servlet")
public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet {
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
#Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().write("Test Servlet");
super.doGet(req, resp);
}
}
and the following Web.xml...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<servlet>
<display-name>srv</display-name>
<servlet-name>srv</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.me.test.TestServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>srv</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/srv/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
but I get...
Error 405: HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL

Answer 1

You are getting the 405 error because you are calling super.doGet() at the end of your doGet(). Try removing that line.
The default implementation of doGet() in the base class HttpServlet returns that 405 error. To support the GET operation, you must override doGet() without calling the parent implementation, otherwise it returns the same error intended to be displayed when there is no override.