The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
ApacheJakarta EeJstlTomcat7Apache Problem Overview
I am using JDK 1.7, Apache Tomcat 7.0.23 and I have placed JSTL core library(1.2) and STANDARD jar in WEB_INF lib folder it is not giving me any warning but when I will try to run the code
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<!-- Create Bean Instance-->
<jsp:useBean id="listdomain" class="bean.PopulateMultiDomain" scope="session"></jsp:useBean>
<jsp:setProperty property="*" name="listdomain"/>
<c:forEach var="item" items="${listdomain.status}">
<option>
<c:out value="${item}" />
</option>
</c:forEach>
it gives me the following error:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:56)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:410)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:117)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTLDLocation(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:311)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.<init>(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:152)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:410)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:475)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1425)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:138)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:242)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:102)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:198)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:373)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:353)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:340)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:646)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:357)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
Can anyone suggest me what mistake I am making?
Apache Solutions
Solution 1 - Apache
Remove the standard.jar. It's apparently of old JSTL 1.0 version when the TLD URIs were without the /jsp path. With JSTL 1.2 as available here you don't need a standard.jar at all. Just the jstl-1.2.jar in /WEB-INF/lib is sufficient.
See also:
Solution 2 - Apache
I solved the same problem. I've just added JSTL-1.2.jar to /apache-tomcat-x.x.x/lib and set scope to provided in maven pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Solution 3 - Apache
Make sure you didn't skip all jars in
tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip
in Tomcat catalina.properties.
Solution 4 - Apache
I have removed the scope and then used a maven update to solve this problem.
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
**<!-- <scope>provided</scope> -->**
</dependency>
The jstl lib is not present in the tomcat lib folder.So we have to include it. I don't understand why we are told to keep both servlet-api and jstl's scope as provided.
Solution 5 - Apache
The error in question may also be caused by disabled JarScanner in tomcat/conf/context.xml.
<JarScanner scanManifest="false"/> allows to avoid both problems.
Solution 6 - Apache
If you are using eclipse and maven for handling dependencies, you may need to take these extra steps to make sure eclipse copies the dependencies properly https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6083501/maven-dependencies-not-visible-in-web-inf-lib (namely the Deployment Assembly for Dynamic web application)
Solution 7 - Apache
if you use spring boot check in application.propertiese this property is commented or remove it if exist.
server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns=*.jar
Solution 8 - Apache
This might be because of the transitive dependencies.
Try to add/ remove the scope from the JSTL library.
This worked for me!
Solution 9 - Apache
If you are using maven project then you just need to add the jstl-1.2 jar in your dependency. If you are simply adding the jar to your project then it's possible that jar file is not added in your project project artifact. You simply need to add the jar file in WEB-INF/lib file.
This is how your project should look when jstl is not added to the artifact. Just hit the fix button and intellij will add the jar file in the above mentioned path. Run the project and bang.
Solution 10 - Apache
I was facing the same issue, to solve it I have added the below entry in pom.xml and performed a maven update.
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>