Getting JSTL to run within Tomcat and Eclipse

Question

I\'ve been trying to get this to run, but I can\'t. I\'m using Eclipse Galileo, Tomcat 5.5.23 and have several JSTLs around. My latest try was to use the GlassFish jar file

Answer 1

It's very simple to include jstl in your projects, what I do is:

1. Download jstl-1.2.jar (JSP 2.1 containers only i.e. Tomcat 6, otherwise jstl-1.1.jar) from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/jstl/1.2/
   or
   the interfaces (javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-api-1.2.1.jar) from http://search.maven.org/#browse|707331597 and the actual implementing classes (javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.2.jar) from http://search.maven.org/#browse%7C-1002239589.

2. Copy to your project's WEB-INF/lib directory

3. Include the following tags in yours jsp's:
   • <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
   • <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
   • <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn" %>
   • <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" prefix="sql" %>

As for eclipse I need to know if your using any framework plugin, I use MyEclipse and it does it automatically for me.

Answer 2

Another method is shown here https://stackoverflow.com/tags/jstl/info

In short, download jstl.jar from here:

http://download.java.net/maven/1/jstl/jars/jstl-1.2.jar

and drop it in your WEB-INF/lib dir

and add the line:

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

in your jsp file.

(don't forget to do F5 and clean and build after that)