java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.getELContext()Ljavax/el/ELContex

Question

i have this code which is not working.

<jsp:useBean id="abbreviationlist" class="AbbreviationListType"/>
<jsp:setProperty name="abbreviationlist" property="id"/>
            <table>
                <c:forEach items="${abbreviationlist.list}" var="abbreviation">
                </c:forEach>
            </table>

and i have the class AbbreviationListType with set and get methods for the list- get singnature is =

public List<AbbreviationType> getList()

can someone please point out what i am doing wrong ? cause this doesnt work and i get this stack trace:

javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.getELContext()Ljavax/el/ELContext; java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.getELContext()Ljavax/el/ELContex; at javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core.LoopTagSupport.unExposeVariables(LoopTagSupport.java:620) .....................

here is my WEB-INF/lib

and my catalina/common/lib

Answer 1

You have the wrong version of something. Remove all el-api, jsp-api and the jstl* jars from your lib folder. They are shipped with your servlet container