Basically i never had this error before, it become so challenging because it happen after i adding sitemesh library on my maven project. My first guess is, somehow Sitemesh have a conflicting configuration with other libraries. But i never found any reference nor article to support my theory. Even after i heavily removed several library, the error still happens.
Suddenly i have an enlightenment, after i remove my ehcache gzip compression filter. It turns out that in order to work i need to put sitemesh filter location after ehcache gzip filter.
Here is my final web.xml looks like,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" 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">
<!-- gzip -->
<filter>
<filter-name>CompressionFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>net.sf.ehcache.constructs.web.filter.GzipFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CompressionFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- sitemesh -->
<filter>
<filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
</web-app>