Installing GlassFish JSTL on Tomcat

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∟Overview of JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Libraries)

∟Installing GlassFish JSTL on Tomcat

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download JSTL 1.2 JAR file developed by the Oracle GalssFish project and install it in the default application on a Tomcat 7 server.

In 2012, I was able to download the JSTL 1.2 implementation by the Oracle GlassFish project at http://jstl.java.net/. But now that Website is replaced by https://javaee.github.io/jstl-api/. The new site allows you to use github tools to download and build the JAR files.

Another way to obtain the JSTL 1.2 JAR files is use the Java EE (Enterprise Edition) SDK package, which should include the JSTL 1.2 implementation.

1. Go to https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/downloads.

2. Click "Java EE 8 Platform SDK" to download java_ee_sdk-8.zip.

3. Unzip the downloaded file to the \local\glassfish5 directory.

4. To install the JSTL JAR file to the default application on my Tomcat server, I need to create a "lib" directory under ".\ROOT\WEB-INF\" and copy the JSTL JAR file there:

herong> mkdir \local\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib

herong> copy                                                    \
   \local\glassfish5\glassfish\modules\javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.jar \
   \local\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib