I ran into this puppy also. As Bear said you need the new jars and tld files from Jakarta, but that isn't quite enough. You have to hack web.xml and the include.jsp from the book examples.
--------------- web.xml ---------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
<display-name>
Test web app </display-name>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>
http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</taglib-uri>;
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<
servlet>
<servlet-name>rentaBikeApp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>rentaBikeApp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.bikes</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
--------------- end web.xml -----------------------------
--------------- include.jsp -----------------------------
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="sql" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
--------------- end include.jsp -----------------------------
