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Spring MVC JSTL Configuration Example

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Learn to configure JSTL support to Spring MVC application using maven build tool. Learn to enable JSTL tags in Spring MVC application.

1. JSTL maven dependencies

<dependency>
	<groupid>javax.servlet</groupid>
	<artifactid>jstl</artifactid>
	<version>1.2</version>
	<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupid>taglibs</groupid>
	<artifactid>standard</artifactid>
	<version>1.1.2</version>
	<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

2. Configure InternalResourceViewResolver to resolve JSTL views

2.1. Spring JSTL Java Configuration

@Bean
public ViewResolver configureViewResolver() 
{
	InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolve = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
	viewResolve.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/");
	viewResolve.setSuffix(".jsp");
	return viewResolve;
}

2.2. Spring JSTL XML Configuration

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
	<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"></property>
	<property name="prefix">
		<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
	</property>
	<property name="suffix">
		<value>.jsp</value>
	</property>
</bean>

3. Use JSTL tags in JSP files

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

<h1>Welcome message : <c:out value="${message}"></c:out></h1>

Happy Learning !!

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Feedback, Discussion and Comments

  1. No need changes in web.xml?

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  2. As a side note how to add JSTL support in Struts application built using maven – will adding the appropriate maven dependencies (as indicated in the article) be good enough?

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  3. getting following error -in spring Application ,pl help

    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:250)

    Reply

    • according to your problem there was two possibility for this particular error
      1. missing jstl but i hope you have this in dpendency
      2.not acorrect version of servlet less
      please try to change the servlet version in your project to

      javax.servlet
      servlet-api
      2.5
      provided

      Reply

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