JSTL Newbie - What's causing this error?

[tommyc7]

I am a Java developer but am new to using the JSTL in JSPs. I am working through a book and using the supplied code, but keep getting the same error. I've googled this, but can't seem to find anything wrong with the code.

Here is a snippet of the tutorial code:

<!--Use taglib directive to include JSTL core and XML tags-->
<%@ taglib uri="[URL unfurl="true"]http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"[/URL] 
    prefix="c" %> 
<%@ taglib uri="[URL unfurl="true"]http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml"[/URL] 
    prefix="x" %> 
<!--Parse newslist.xml file and store result in newslist variable in application scope-->
<c:if test="${empty applicationScope.newslist}" > 
  <c:import url="[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost:8080/news/xml/newslist.xml"[/URL] var="xml" />
  <x:parse doc="${xml}" var="newslist" scope="application" />
</c:if>  
<!--Retrieve date element value for each news element and store in tempdate variable in request scope-->
<x:forEach var="heading" select="$newslist/newslist/*">
  <c:set var="tempdate" scope="request">
    <x:out select="$heading/date"/>
  </c:set>

and here is the start of the exception:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: [URL unfurl="true"]http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core[/URL] 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)

The book didn't indicate that web.xml needed to be changed. I'm using Tomcat 5.5. I've try putting a copy of the jstl jar in my classpath, but that didn't help.

I'm sure being new I'm missing something small.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
Tom

 

[jaxtell]

you might have better luck here. I'd try putting the jstl.jar in your WEB-INF/lib folder and restarting Tomcat.

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[tommyc7]

Thanks. Didn't realize there was a forum specifically for JSP. I reposted it there, but don't see a way to delete this one.