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Leonid Bor
Leonid Bor

Reputation: 2264

Proper installation of JSTL for Maven (Intellij IDEA)

I am trying to use JSTL for my index.jsp page, but for some reason each time after packaging project to .war and running with Tomcat it gives me following errors:

HTTP Status 500 - /index.jsp (line: 12, column: 0) Unterminated <c:if tag

or

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jsp.index_jsp

From what I found on google, there are 2 ways to install JSTL into your Maven project: 1) Add this to pom.xml

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

2) Add some jars to WEB-INF/lib, but here's the problem: no such folder was automaticaly created and if I do it manually it does not help. Project structure looks like this: enter image description here

The code of index.jsp is the following:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title><c:if> Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:set var="salary" scope="session" value="${2000*2}"/>
<c:if test="${salary > 2000}">
   <p>My salary is: <c:out value="${salary}"/><p>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>

So, what should I do to make those work? I can't find any guide or piece of information that could help me solving this. Thanks for having a look at my problem!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1785

Answers (1)

jlumietu
jlumietu

Reputation: 6434

Just what compiler tells you: Unterminated c:if tag:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title><c:if> Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:set var="salary" scope="session" value="${2000*2}"/>
<c:if test="${salary > 2000}">
   <p>My salary is: <c:out value="${salary}"/><p>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>

Look at line 4 of your jsp: 

<title><c:if> Tag Example</title>

It must be 

<title><c:if> Tag Example </c:if></title>

EDIT: As seems that I explained badly, I have tested in a running web-app, and this way (that is just what I was trying to explain) works:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>&lt;c:if&gt;  Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:set var="salary" scope="session" value="${2000*2}"/>
<c:if test="${salary > 2000}">
   <p>My salary is: <c:out value="${salary}"/><p>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 1

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