Question

I am using tomcat 7 while my coworkers are on 6 and we are trying to run this type of structure:

<c:forEach>
    <rich:panelMenuGroup>
        <c:forEach>
            <rich:panelMenuItem>
            </rich:panelMenuItem>
        </c:forEach>
    </rich:panelMenuGroup>
</c:forEach>

Any advice would be appreciate if there is a workaround or something like that it’s fine as well because we WILL be moving to 7 and need a way to get this to work.

thanks

Answer 1

Tomcat doesn’t ship with JSTL. The JSTL JARs are normally provided by /WEB-INF/lib of the webapp, but sometimes the JARs are just dropped straight in Tomcat’s own /lib folder so that it get applied to all webapps without them to have JSTL in their /WEB-INF/lib.

Apparently the old Tomcat 6 server had JSTL in its /lib and the webapp is built without JSTL in /WEB-INF/lib.

You need to ensure that Tomcat 7 has also JSTL in its /lib, or you just need to drop JSTL in webapp’s own /WEB-INF/lib.