Cannot find the JSTL core library descriptor error in Eclipse

Question

I am getting following error:

The taglib declaration I have:

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

Also I have included jstl.jar in my project libraries folder as can be seen above. So what could be other possible reasons.

Answer 1

1. Drop all the directives you currently have in your JSP file, and drop the jstl.jar and standard.jar .
2. Download the last JAR of JSTL here , and put it in your /WEB-INF/lib folder.
3. Use the following URI in your taglib directives.

Directive for JSTL Core:

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

Answer 2

I had the same problem, the solution was removing the "/jsp" from uri:

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

In my case, I also had to change the "jstl/core" to "jstl/core_rt"

Regards.