JSTL directive problem

[Timothy Sam]

This is kinda embarrassing since I've been using JSTL for quite sometime and yet still encounter problems such as this... I get the following error message when I use this directive:

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

here's the error message:

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

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.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:510)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause

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:50)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:114)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTLDLocation(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:316)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.<init>(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:147)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:423)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:492)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1552)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:126)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:211)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:100)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:155)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:295)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:276)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:264)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:563)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:303)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

I've already put the jstl.jar in my WEB-INF/lib folder and I'm using Tomcat 5.5. This is really strange... I could be banging my head now... Please help... Thanks!

[Bear Bibeault]

There's a JSP FAQ on the subject of the JSTL. Have you checked it?

http://faq.javaranch.com/view?JstlTagLibDefinitions
[ August 20, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Christophe Verré]

You're missing a jar file here, so please read the FAQ posted by Bear.

[Timothy Sam]

Thank you guys... I'll go on read it now...