org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl

Question

I have a web service project implemented in java and it also contains jsp pages. I deploy it on jetty 8.1.5 on my machine and it works normally. But when I deploy on a windo

Answer 1

Apart from the answers mentioned watch out for one more thing. I've another war deployed under the same Tomcat 7.0.42 instance which had a jsp-2.1-6.0.2.jar under its WEB-INF/lib. This jar has org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl class.

My understanding was that each webapp has its own classloader and the class files loaded by one webapp is not visible to the other webapp. Still as nothing was working I removed the other war which had that jsp.jar and restarted my tomcat and to my surprise the exception was no longer coming. Somehow this class was getting loaded and causing the issue.

The interesting thing is that both of these wars work perfectly fine in Tomcat 6.x.