Can't find class javax/el/ELException

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I got the below exception when I deployed my application in tomcat 5.The same was working fine in tomcat 6 too.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ELException

java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2395)
java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1763)
java.beans.Introspector$1.run(Introspector.java:1265)

As per the investigation I found..

The ELEvaluator.class of the provided jstl1.2.jar was not compatible with the jsp-api.jar of tomcat 5

I replaced jstl1.2.jar with

jstl.jar and standard.jar and added this to my web.xml

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<web-app id=”WebApp_9″ version=”2.3″
xmlns=”[url]http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee“[/url]
xmlns:xsi=”[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“[/url]
xsi:schemaLocation=”[url]http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee[/url] http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_3.xsd“>

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<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.

tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c-1_0.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c-1_0-rt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/fmt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/fmt-1_0.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/fmt-1_0-rt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/fn.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/permittedTaglibs.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt-rt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/scriptfree.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/sql.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql-rt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/sql-1_0.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql-rt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/sql-1_0-rt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/x</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/x.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/x</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/x-1_0.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/x</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/x-1_0-rt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

</web-app>

and my Issue got resolved..hope this may help u…Enjoy

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