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Asked: 2026-05-17T23:06:53+00:00

I’m using : Apache Tomcat 6.0.20 Spring 3.x I want to create simple Hello

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I’m using :

  1. Apache Tomcat 6.0.20
  2. Spring 3.x

I want to create simple “Hello World !!!” on my index page. Unfortunately, I get the following error: 

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/jstl/core/Config
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:820)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

this is my controller called IndexController.java

package com.dprima.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
public class IndexController {
    @RequestMapping("/index")
    public ModelAndView index(){
        String message = "Hello World !!!";
        return new ModelAndView("index","hello",message);
    }
}

my web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>passion</display-name>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

      <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>

      <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
      </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

my dispatcher-servlet.xml

 ...
        <context:component-scan base-package="com.dprima.controller" />

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

my redirect.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<% response.sendRedirect("index.php"); %>

my index.jsp

<html>
<head>
    <title>Spring 3</title>
</head>
<body>
    ${hello}
</body>
</html>

I have added all JARs including jstl.jar & standard.jar because I assume this will required for the java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/jstl/core/Config error. However, it still displays HTTP 500 for the http://localhost:8080/passion/index.php and HTTP 404 for http://localhost:8080/passion/.

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  1. Editorial Team

    JARs should be in WEB-INF/lib, not subdirectories.

    If you’re deploying on Tomcat, you might try putting those JSTL JARs in the Tomcat /lib so the server class loader can find them.

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