Adding JSTL to jsp (Tomcat 8) [duplicate]

Question

I want to use the JSTL library in my jsp's. Now I followed a tutorial and it told me to add this line to the jsp page:

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

It gives me the error cannot resolve taglib with uri and then the URL.

I'm running tomcat 8. My web.xml is like this:

<web-app version="2.4"
         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

Does someone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

You need to add jar for the jstl library in your classpath. If you are using maven, then add this dependency.

<dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        <version>1.2</version>
    </dependency>

Add this to your pom.xml.