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Unable to Resolve JSTL taglib Declaration

 
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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to use JSTL taglibs in my JSP page. I have added the line:

at the start of the JSP. I also have standard-1.0.6.jar and jstl-1.0.4.jar downloaded from maven in my classpath. But in Eclipse I get an error saying that:

 
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Verify that those jars are in ' WEB-INF/lib' of your application.
 
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Yup they are in WEB-INF/lib folder of my eclipse project. Also would like to know that should we make changes in the web.xml file for adding taglibs?
 
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Isn't that a really old version? (Can't keep the versions straight in my head.)

If it is, try:as the URI--it changed.
 
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http://java.sun.com/jstl/core worked! Man... these versions!
 
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Well now i run the jsp page and i get an error:


 
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Where do you configure soemthing to use /WEB-INF/c.tld?
 
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Well i didn't get your question! Well eclipse does that automatically edits the web.xml file, doesn't it?
 
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Something in your project refers to /WEB-INF/c.tld. If there's no TLD file there that won't work.
 
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Why are you using an antiquated version of the JSTL to being with?
 
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Well my web application is in version 2.4. I am using Tomcat 6.0.20. Actually I have to use the code for Java 1.4. So i have to use JSTL 1.1 specification. I read that JSTL 1.2 can be used for web application version 2.5 and and Java 1.5.
 
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Have you looked at your web.xml file in your application.
I hope the below information will resolve your problem.

http://faq.javaranch.com/java/SetupJstlForJsp2

How do I declare the web.xml file for Servlets 2.5 and JSP 2.1? (Tomcat 6.0.14 and so on)

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>web app name here</display-name>

<!-- rest of declarations go here -->

</web-app>
How do I declare the web.xml file for Servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0? (Tomcat 5, Resin 3, and so on)


<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>web app name here</display-name>

<!-- rest of declarations go here -->

</web-app>
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