java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.getELContext()Ljavax/el/ELContext;

Question

I am trying to set a variable that I will refer to in a custom JSP tag, so I have something like this in my JSP:

<%@ taglib prefix=\"c\" uri=\"http://java.sun         


        

Answer 1

This seems to come up quite a bit. We had Hadoop as a dependency and had to do multiple exclusions. Some of these are probably redundant, but this finally worked. I should note that there was no change until I started excluding Jasper at the bottom.

    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        jsp-2.1
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        jsp-api-2.1
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        jsp-api
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        servlet-api
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        servlet-api-2.5
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        jetty
    
    
        org.mortbay.jetty
        jetty-util
    
    
        tomcat
        jasper-compiler
    
    
        tomcat
        jasper-runtime