cannot find symbol getServletContext() error in upload file on server using servlet and html

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Question

Uploading a txt file on server using servlets with HTML form, but it is showing the following error: 

    cannot find symbol filePath = getServletContext().getInitParameter("file-upload");

Jar files added: 

commons-fileupload-1.3.jar, commons-io-2.4.jar, servlet-api-3.0.jar

Using NetBeansIDE and parameters set in web.xml with path "C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.40\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF"

<context-param> 
    <description>destination storing uploaded file</description> 
    <param-name>file-upload</param-name> 
    <param-value>
     C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.40\webapps\data\
     </param-value> 
</context-param>

Tried the following code:FileUpload3 

package fileupload3;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.*;


public class FileUpload3 {

    private boolean isMultipart;

   private String filePath;
   private int maxFileSize = 50 * 1024;
   private int maxMemSize = 4 * 1024;
   private File file ;

   public void init()  {
      // Showing cannot find symbol getServletContext() error here
      filePath = getServletContext().getInitParameter("file-upload");   

   }
   public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, 
               HttpServletResponse response)
              throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

      isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
      response.setContentType("text/html");
      java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter( );
      if( !isMultipart ){
         out.println("<html>");
         out.println("<head>");
         out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");  
         out.println("</head>");
         out.println("<body>");
         out.println("<p>No file uploaded</p>"); 
         out.println("</body>");
         out.println("</html>");
         return;
      }
      DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
      // maximum size that will be stored in memory
      factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
      // Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
      factory.setRepository(new File("c:\\temp"));

      // Create a new file upload handler
      ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
      // maximum file size to be uploaded.
      upload.setSizeMax( maxFileSize );

      try{ 
      // Parse the request to get file items.
      List fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);

      // Process the uploaded file items
      Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();

      out.println("<html>");
      out.println("<head>");
      out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");  
      out.println("</head>");
      out.println("<body>");
      while ( i.hasNext () ) 
      {
         FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
         if ( !fi.isFormField () )  
         {
            // Get the uploaded file parameters
            String fieldName = fi.getFieldName();
            String fileName = fi.getName();
            String contentType = fi.getContentType();
            boolean isInMemory = fi.isInMemory();
            long sizeInBytes = fi.getSize();
            // Write the file
            if( fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0 ){
               file = new File( filePath + 
               fileName.substring( fileName.lastIndexOf("\\"))) ;
            }else{
               file = new File( filePath + 
               fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\")+1)) ;
            }
            fi.write( file ) ;
            out.println("Uploaded Filename: " + fileName + "<br>");
         }
      }
      out.println("</body>");
      out.println("</html>");
   }catch(Exception ex) {
       System.out.println(ex);
   }
   }
   public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, 
                       HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

        throw new ServletException("GET method used with " +
                getClass( ).getName( )+": POST method required.");
   } 
}

HTML Form: newhtml1.html

<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>File Upload:</h3>
Select a file to upload: <br />
<form action="FileUpload3" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Solution

It should extend HttpServlet class. Replace public class FileUpload3 with public class FileUpload3 extends HttpServlet and it will work.

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