I also use this
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
but I don't get any error.
Did you include the jstl.jar
in your library? If not maybe this causing the problem. And also the 'tld' folder do you have it? And how about your web.xml
did you map it?
Have a look on the info about jstl for other information.