Sounds to me like a conflicting (duplicate) or missing server-api v2.5+ jar file
The recommendations in the accepted answer below are reasonable, particularly #3 which is about jar duplicates.... activemq has a version 2.5 already, so if you installation has one the classloader will likely complain like u see. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8611777/java-lang-nosuchmethoderror-javax-servlet-servletcontext-getcontextpathljava On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:42 PM, artnaseef <a...@artnaseef.com> wrote: > Hmm, OpenJDK -- isn't that a kind of "pre-release" of the next gen of java? > > Can you try with a standard oracle java distribution? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/NoSuchMethod-exception-running-ActiveMQ-5-10-0-tp4690810p4690904.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Jon Gorrono PGP Key: 0x5434509D - http{ pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x5434509D&op=index} http{middleware.ucdavis.edu}