Sun JSTL taglib declaration fails with Can not find the tag library descriptor

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I am using a JSP page to print an array of values  I m trying to use JSTL  lt c forEach gt  for this    lt c forEach items    objects   var  object  gt       lt td gt   object name   lt  td gt   lt  c forEach gt    The problem is my JSTL taglib declaration     lt    taglib prefix  c  uri  http   java sun com jsp jstl core   gt    The IDE shows an error on this line     Can not find the tag library descriptor    Many of the forums point to the old Sun site to download the JSTL libraries  Now all of these links point to the Oracle home page with no link to JSTL binaries  This is leading me to believe there is a newer approach to accomplish this

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Just check our own JSTL wiki page for the proper download links and crystal clear installation instructions.

Put your mouse above the [jstl] tag which you put on the question yourself until a black box shows up and click therein the info link.

Then scroll a bit down to JSTL versions information until you find download link to JSTL 1.2 (or 1.2.1).

Finally just drop exactly that file in webapp's /WEB-INF/lib.

This way the taglib declaration must not give any errors anymore and the JSTL tags and functions should just work.

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This is a fix for people who are not using maven  You also need to add standard jar to your lib folder for the core tag library to work  Works for jstl version 1 1     lt   taglib prefix  core  uri  http   java sun com jsp jstl core   gt

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You can download the Apache Standard Taglib and include the jar in your project

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If you use Tomcat server I suggest you to put JSTL  jar file to the Tomcat lib folder  By doing  this you will have an access to JSTL in all your web projects automatically  with taglib declaration in  jsp files of course

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To resolve this issue     The jstl jar should be in your classpath  If you are using maven  add a dependency to jstl in your pom xml using the snippet provided here  If you are not using maven  download the jstl jar from here and deploy it into your WEB-INF lib  Make sure you have the following taglib directive at the top of your jsp     lt    taglib prefix  c  uri  http   java sun com jsp jstl core   gt

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I just want to share my experience  I have same problem about jstl using maven  I resolved it by adding two dependency         lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt javax servlet lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt servlet-api lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 2 5 lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt jstl lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt jstl lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 1 2 lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt

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I was getting this problem with a maven project using the eclipse IDE   I changed the  Order and Export  in the project s build path putting the Maven dependencies first and the error disappeared   I guess it s because the eclipse IDE was initially building my application source before loading the Maven libraries

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I was getting the same problem on Spring Tool Suite 3 2 and changed the version of jstl to 1 2  from 1 1 2  manually when adding it to the dependency list  and the error got disappeared

[spring] Sun JSTL taglib declaration fails with "Can not find the tag library descriptor"

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