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Build Identifier: 20110916-0149 JSTL does not work with Tomcat 7 and Maven plug-in in Eclipse pom.xml contain following <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>javax</groupId> <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId> <version>6.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>jstl</groupId> <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> </dependency> </dependencies> jsp containing jstl is as follows <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %> <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Basic JSTL</title> </head> <body> <table> <tr><th>Value</th> <th>Square</th></tr> <c:forEach var="x" begin="0" end="10" step="2"> <tr><td><c:out value="${x}"/></td> <td><c:out value="${x * x}"/></td></tr> </c:forEach> </table> </body> </html> You get following error SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [jsp] in context with path [/mvnjstl] threw exception [The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application] with root cause org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:53) This works when I manually create the war file from maven and deploy the war file into Tomcat and so it seems like there might be an integration issue between Eclipse, Tomcat, and Maven plugin Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create maven project 2. Create pom.xml described in details 3. Create sample jstl file based on description in details 4. Run the sample in Tomcat 7 5. See error
m2e does not provide direct support for JEE development. Assuming you are using m2e/wtp integration, please use https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MECLIPSEWTP to report problems.
Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/
