I don't know what I've done incorrectly, but I can't include JSTL. I have jstl-1.2.jar, but unfortunately I get exception:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:51)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:409)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:116)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTLDLocation(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:315)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.<init>(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:148)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:429)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:492)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1439)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:137)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:255)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:103)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:170)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:332)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:312)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:299)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:586)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:317)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
I have:
pom.xml
<dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId> <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>taglibs</groupId> <artifactId>standard</artifactId> <version>1.1.2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> </dependency>
web.xml
<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_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
index.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %> <html> <head></head> <body></body> </html>
I had disabled MAVEN and Spring tools completely. And I had to add the following jar's for making my environment work right.
The worst of all was
jstl-api-1.2.jar
andjavax-servlet.jsp.jst-api-1.2.1.jar
. They just did not work.Just had similar problem in Eclipse fixed with:
something kicked it out before, while I was editing my pom.xml
I had all needed jar files, taglib uri and web.xml was ok
That URI is for JSTL 1.0, but you're actually using JSTL 1.2 which uses URIs with an additional
/jsp
path (because JSTL, who invented EL expressions, was since version 1.1 integrated as part of JSP in order to share/reuse the EL logic in plain JSP too).So, fix the taglib URI accordingly:
Further your POM also specifies Apache's JSTL 1.1 implementation via
taglibs:standard
. This is unnecessary and even dangerous when you've already JSTL 1.2 API+impl bundled viajavax.servlet:jstl
, because 1.1 and 1.2 will obviously conflict each other. Just only the following JSTL 1.2 dependency should do it in order to have JSTL installed in your Tomcat-targeted webapp (do not set the<scope>
toprovided
as Tomcat actually doesn't provide it out the box!):Non-Maven users can achieve the same by dropping the single jstl-1.2.jar file in
/WEB-INF/lib
folder of the web application project (do not drop standard.jar or any loose .tld files in there!).In case you're actually using a normal Java EE server such as WildFly, Payara, etc instead of a barebones servletcontainer such as Tomcat, Jetty, etc, then you don't need to explicitly install JSTL at all. Normal Java EE servers already provide JSTL out the box. In other words, you don't need to add JSTL to
pom.xml
nor to drop any JAR/TLD files in webapp. Solely theprovided
scoped Java EE coordinate is sufficient:Further you should also make sure that your
web.xml
is declared conform at least Servlet 2.4 and thus not as Servlet 2.3 or older. Otherwise EL expressions inside JSTL tags would in turn fail to work. Pick the highest version matching your target container and make sure that you don't have a<!DOCTYPE>
anywhere in yourweb.xml
. Here's a Servlet 4.0 (Tomcat 9) compatible example:See also:
web.xml
examples)@BalusC is completely right, but If you still encounter this exception, it means that something you have done wrong. The most important information you will find is on the SO JSTL Tag Info page.
Basically this is a summary of what you need to do to deal with this exception.
Check the servlet version in web.xml:
<web-app version="2.5">
Check if JSTL version is supported for this servlet version: Servlet version 2.5 uses JSTL 1.2 or Servlet version 2.4 uses JSTL 1.1
Your servlet container must have the appropriate library, or you must include it manually in your application. For example: JSTL 1.2 requires jstl-1.2.jar
What to do with Tomcat 5 or 6:
You need to include appropriate jar(s) into your WEB-INF/lib directory (it will work only for your application) or to the tomcat/lib (will work globally for all applications).
The last thing is a taglib in your jsp files. For JSTL 1.2 correct one is this:
I found another reason for this type of error: in my case, someone set the catalina.properties setting
tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip
property to*
to avoid log warning messages, thereby skipping the necessary scan by Tomcat. Changing this back to the Tomcat default and adding an appropriate list of jars to skip (not including jstl-1.2 or spring-webmvc) solved the problem.If you have tried everything but it didn't help, you should restart server. In my case I just forgot to restart Tomcat, after adding
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.1.jar
tolib
directory.