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>
The answer is
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
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 based on JSTL documentation:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
Further you need to make absolutely sure that you do not throw multiple different versioned JSTL JAR files together into the runtime classpath. This is a pretty common mistake among Tomcat users. The problem with Tomcat is that it does not offer JSTL out the box and thus you have to manually install it. This is not necessary in normal Jakarta EE servers. See also What exactly is Java EE?
In your specific case, your pom.xml basically tells you that you have jstl-1.2.jar and standard-1.1.2.jar together. This is wrong. You're basically mixing JSTL 1.2 API+impl from Oracle with JSTL 1.1 impl from Apache. You should stick to only one JSTL implementation.
Installing JSTL on Tomcat 10+
In case you're already on Tomcat 10 or newer (the first Jakartified version, with jakarta.* package instead of javax.* package), use JSTL 2.0 via this sole dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Non-Maven users can achieve the same by dropping the following two physical files in /WEB-INF/lib folder of the web application project (do absolutely not drop standard*.jar or any loose .tld files in there! remove them if necessary).
- jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-2.0.0.jar (this is the JSTL 2.0 impl of EE4J)
- jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-api-2.0.0.jar (this is the JSTL 2.0 API)
Installing JSTL on Tomcat 9-
In case you're not on Tomcat 10 yet, but still on Tomcat 9 or older, use JSTL 1.2 via this sole dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2.6</version>
</dependency>
Non-Maven users can achieve the same by dropping the following two physical files in /WEB-INF/lib folder of the web application project (do absolutely not drop standard*.jar or any loose .tld files in there! remove them if necessary).
- jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.6.jar (this is the JSTL 1.2 impl of EE4J)
- jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-api-1.2.7.jar (this is the JSTL 1.2 API)
Installing JSTL on normal JEE server
In case you're actually using a normal Jakarta 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 Jakarta 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 the provided scoped Jakarta EE coordinate is sufficient:
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
<version><!-- 9.0.0, 8.0.0, etc depending on your server --></version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Make sure web.xml version is right
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 your web.xml. Here's a Servlet 5.0 (Tomcat 10) compatible example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app
xmlns="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/web-app_5_0.xsd"
version="5.0">
<!-- Config here. -->
</web-app>
And here's a Servlet 4.0 (Tomcat 9) compatible example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd"
version="4.0">
<!-- Config here. -->
</web-app>
See also:
- JSTL core taglib documentation (for the right taglib URIs)
- EL expressions not evaluated in JSP
- How to configure pom.xml for Tomcat 10+ or Tomcat 9-
I found another reason for this type of error: in my case, someone set the conf/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.
Add the jstl-1.2.jar into the tomcat/lib folder.
With this, your dependency error will be fixed again.
- Download jstl-1.2.jar
Add this directive to your page:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>Paste the JAR file in your WEB-INF/lib folder. This should work. (It worked for me.)
If you use Spring boot, consider to remove server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns=*.jar from Application.properties if there is any
Just had similar problem in Eclipse fixed with:
rightclick on project->Properties->Deployment Assembly->add Maven Dependencies
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
I have mentioned that the Maven dependency in the pom.xml is wrong. It should be
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
jstl-1.2.jar --> <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
jstl-1.1.jar --> <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
also please check for the dependency jars that you have added javax.servlet.jar and javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.1.jar or not in your WEB-INF/lib folder. In my case these two solved the issue.
Resolved similar problem in IBM RAD 7.5 by selecting:
- Projects properties
- Project Facets
- JSTL check-box
I just wanted to add the fix I found for this issue. I'm not sure why this worked. I had the correct version of jstl (1.2) and also the correct version of servlet-api (2.5)
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
I also had the correct address in my page as suggested in this thread, which is
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
What fixed this issue for me was removing the scope tag from my xml file in the pom for my jstl 1.2 dependency. Again not sure why that fixed it but just in case someone is doing the spring with JPA and Hibernate tutorial on pluralsight and has their pom setup this way, try removing the scope tag and see if that fixes it. Like I said it worked for me.
An answer for the year 2021
The question is still very popular, but all the answers are seriously outdated. All Java EE components were split off into various Jakarta projects and JSTL is no different. So here are the correct Maven dependencies as of today:
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2.6</version>
</dependency>
Yes, the versions and groupIds do not match, but that's a quirk of the project's current state.
I had the same issue , I am using eclipse, just in case others experience the same issue:
In eclipse double click the tomcat server,
stop the server
untick the "server modules without publishing"
start the server.
I had disabled MAVEN and Spring tools completely. And I had to add the following jar's for making my environment work right.
- spring-aop-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- spring-beans-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar (tough to find this fix, other org.springframework<3.versions> just did not work.
- spring-context-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- spring-core-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- spring-expression-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- spring-web-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- spring-webmvc-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar
- jstl-1.2.jar
The worst of all was jstl-api-1.2.jar and javax-servlet.jsp.jst-api-1.2.1.jar. They just did not work.
jstl-1.2.jar worked well.
@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:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
All of the answers in this question helped me but I thought I'd add some additional information for posterity.
It turned out that I had a test dependency on gwt-test-utils which brought in the gwt-dev package. Unfortunately gwt-dev contains a full copy of Jetty, JSP, JSTL, etc. which was ahead of the proper packages on the classpath. So even though I had proper dependencies on the JSTL 1.2 it would loading the 1.0 version internal to gwt-dev. Grumble.
The solution for me was to not run with test scope so I don't pick up the gwt-test-utils package at runtime. Removing the gwt-dev package from the classpath in some other manner would also have fixed the problem.
This workedfor me
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
Source: Stackoverflow.com