[David]

I am running:
Ubuntu
MyEclipse 8.5
Tomcat 5.5.29
Java 1.6

I am working thru a tutorial and my jstl/standard jars appear to not being picked up. The jsp displays:

???heading???

???greeting??? ${model.now}

if I look here:
~/apache-tomcat-5.5.29/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/lib$
standard-1.1.2.jar
jstl-1.1.2.jar

I have my pom.xml as:

    <dependency>
            <groupId>jstl</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.2</version>
        </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>

If I look under “Maven Dependencies” in MyEclipse” I see the jars listed there as well. I reference them in my jsp as:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>

And my web.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" 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">

[support-shalini]

sonoerin,

<web-app version=”2.5″

Since your servlet specification is 2.5, you should use JSTL1.2 in your application.
Can you download the new JSTL.jar and let me know if that works for you?

You can refer to the following links for further reference –
1. http://www.mularien.com/blog/2008/04/24/how-to-reference-and-use-jstl-in-your-web-application/
2. http://faq.javaranch.com/java/SetupJstlForJsp2

[David]

I changed my pom.xml to:

    <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>

I had to undeploy and redeploy but now my url returns:

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/el/ValueExpression
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

I no longer have the jstl taglibs as I couldn’t find one for 1.2

[support-shalini]

sonoerin,
I could not replicate this at my end. jstl 1.2 jar file was added to my maven dependencies as soon as I added the piece of code you posted.
I have attached some screen shots for your reference.

Can you clarify if you have removed dependency for both standard.jar and jstl 1.1.2. jar?

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[David]

Yes, I removed the previous jstl and standard references Here is my dom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <name />
    <description />
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

    <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.3.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.3</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>3.4.0.GA</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>ejb3-persistence</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.2.Beta1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-hibernate3</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

I think these are all compatible with Tomcat 5.5.29. Under WEB-INF/lib/ I have
jstl-1.2.jar

So the jar is there, but it throws an error when trying to use:

j

avax.servlet.ServletException: javax/el/ValueExpression
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ValueExpression
    java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
    java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
    java.beans.Introspector$1.run(Introspector.java:1272)
    java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    java.beans.Introspector.getPublicDeclaredMethods(Introspector.java:1270)
    java.beans.Introspector.getTargetMethodInfo(Introspector.java:1136)
    java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:387)
    java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:159)
    java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:220)
    java.beans.Introspector.<init>(Introspector.java:368)

[support-shalini]

sonoerin,
Tomcat 5 is not a fully J2EE5 compatible server. Either you can try using Tomcat 6 or you can add “jsp-api-2.1.6.0.2.jar” to tomcat 5 lib
Please refer to the following links for further reference –
1. http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=63028
2. http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2009/01/was-getting-error-when-running-portlet.html

[David]

OK, I moved this over to Tomcat 6, and I see that the jstl core seems to be working. I can see the variables returned from the controller. However, the fmt part is still failing:

???heading???

???greeting??? Sun Jul 18 07:45:47 MDT 2010

I cannot find where to find the jstl standard.jar When I try to “add dependency” to Maven4MyEclipse it doesn’t give me any references. I could manually go out and find this jar, but that is defeating the Maven purpose right?

[support-shalini]

sonoerin,

???heading???

???greeting???

This can be caused when the appropriate resource file is not found in the classpath for the given locale(ex ApplicationResources_en.properties).
Can you clarify if you have .properties file, defined for the locale you are using, is added to your classpath?

[David]

Thank you, I totally overlooked the obvious!

[support-shalini]

Welcome…
Do let us know if you have any issues.

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