JasperException: absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved

Question

I've been having the following problem with my GoDaddy's server. I am using JSPs with the JSTL Library. My /WEB-INF/lib folder contains the following libraries:

jstl.jar standard.jar

My JSP looks something like this:

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

<p>Hello!   <%
out.print(System.getProperty("java.class.path")); 

%></p>

But I keep getting the following 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

Any ideas as to why it is doing that?

As you explicitly mentioned Godaddy, may I assume that it "just" works at local dev environment? If so, how does your `web.xml` look like? — BalusC, Mar 11 '10 at 18:33

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 31 '16 at 19:14

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You need to get the right version of JSTL, they use different URIs.

If that one's not working, try: http://download.java.net/maven/1/jstl/jars/jstl-1.2.jar (JSTL 1.2), or pull down the 1.1 JSTL jars.

There's a more detailed list of versions/URIs at coderanch.

edited Mar 31 '16 at 19:14

Jonathon Richardson

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answered Mar 11 '10 at 18:15

brabster

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or if you are using maven: jstl jstl 1.2 – Jan H Jun 28 '13 at 07:10
The javaranch link is dead... would've been more useful to include this information here rather than linking to a third party site. – Amos M. Carpenter Jan 07 '16 at 07:14

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '12 at 06:48

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you need to add Following jar file in your web application

jakarta-jstl-1.1.2.jar
and jakarta-standard-1.1.2.jar files

Recently I have same problem, that i have resolved by adding above two jar files

answered Jan 10 '12 at 06:48

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 08 '13 at 10:45

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I used Tomcat6 37. As for me, I tried mentioned above solutions but still got the error. The problem solved after adding the jstl-1.2.jar to my %CATALINA_HOME%\lib directory.

answered Oct 08 '13 at 10:45

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That happens because the jstl-1.2.jar is somehow not available, adding it to the server libs is not a good idea, while it does solve the problem. – Johnny Bigoode Dec 07 '16 at 15:15

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 18:07

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The answers here were useful to explain the problem but it did not help me diagnose why it was happening when I thought I was loading the right JSTL versions. Ultimately I had to debug the application and put a breakpoint in the TLD file processor (maybe org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.getTagLibraryInfos()) to see from where it was getting the TLD files.

I then discovered that it was loading old versions of the TLD files from a jar that I did not suspect had them -- it was a dependency of the GWT (ick) subsystem. Once the offending jar was removed from my maven dependencies, the problem was resolved.

Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.

answered Mar 18 '14 at 18:07

Gray

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I know it's been a while, but I'm facing an eerily similar problem (also with JSTL in GWT - I'm assuming the Jetty server used by GWT's super dev mode has something to do with it). Do you happen to remember _which_ offending jar you had to remove to resolve this? – Amos M. Carpenter Jan 08 '16 at 05:33
Sorry but I can't remember. I think I used debug mode and looked to see which jar I was in once it stopped. Best of luck. – Gray Jan 08 '16 at 16:20
No worries, thanks - I'll take a poke around and see if I can find which jar it is. Can't believe it's this difficult to use GWT with JSTL... – Amos M. Carpenter Jan 12 '16 at 00:38

JasperException: absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved

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