Error 500--Internal Server Error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/jstl/core/Config

Question

I am getting the following error while deploying the war file in weblogic server.I have created this by using Maven.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/jstl/core/Config
at org.springframework.web.servlet.support.JstlUtils.exposeLocalizationContext(JstlUtils.java:97)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView.exposeHelpers(JstlView.java:135)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:211)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:264)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1208)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.processDispatchResult(DispatcherServlet.java:992)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:939)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:936)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:827)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:812)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:301)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:184)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.wrapRun(WebAppServletContext.java:3750)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3714)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2283)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2182)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1491)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:252)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:221)

I have the jstl-1.2 in lib and jstl-1.2 in weblogic too.But getting the same exception.

I have also tried removing the jstl-1.2 from war lib folder.Even though getting the same Exception.

What could be the reason?

This is my pom

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>se.jo.joassivosWebApp</groupId>
  <artifactId>MApp</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>MApp Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>

 <dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.4</version>
</dependency>


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

 <dependency>
	<groupId>antlr</groupId>
	<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
	<version>2.7.7</version>
</dependency>

 <dependency>
	<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
	<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
	<version>3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
	<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
	<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
	<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
	<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
	<version>3.2.6.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
	<version>3.3.0.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
	<version>3.3.0.ga</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
	<artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
	<version>1.6.3</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
	<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
	<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>log4j</groupId>
	<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
	<version>1.2.12</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
	<version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
	<version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
 <dependency>
       <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
       <artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
      <version>10.2.0.2.0</version>
</dependency>
 
  </dependencies>
<!--   <build>
    <finalName>MApp</finalName>
  </build> -->
  
<build>
        <finalName>MApp</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
                    <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/xercesImpl-2.0.2.jar,WEB-INF/lib/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar</packagingExcludes>
                    
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.17</version>
                <configuration>
                    <argLine>-XX:-UseSplitVerifier</argLine>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
        
    </build>
 
  
</project>

This is my war lib folder

Answer 1

On Weblogic, or Websphere , or JBoss or any other EJB container Set the dependency scope in maven for servlet-api in pom.xml to "provided". Do the same for the jstl dependency. ****They already come as part of your application server. There is absolutely no reason to package the servlets in your jar.****

Ensure they are not present in your war lib folder. If they still are you need to check for transitive dependencies. You can find them out by executing "mvn dependency:tree" from the command line.

On Tomcat or Jetty or other servlet container. jstl does not come as provided library therefore you need to deploy it as part of your WAR archive inside WEB-INF/lib. This would say that if you are using maven the scope of the dependency should be set to "compile".