I've been struggling with this issue and I've tried numerous "solutions".
However, in the end, the only one that worked and it actually took a few seconds to do it was to: delete and add back new server instance!
Basically, I right clicked on my Tomcat server in Eclipse under Servers and deleted it. Next, I've added a new Tomcat server. Cleaned and redeployed the application and I got rid of this error.