JSTL Exception: According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions Solution

Issue:

When you apply jstl:c tag or other jstl tags, you may got following exception.

Exception:

According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions

Reason:

The JSTL version is not matched with your web.xml version.

Solution:
If your web.xml version is 2.3 below, you should use JSTL 1.0; if the version is 2.4 above, you should use JSTL1.1+.

Please notice that different JSTL has different taglib-uri. That’s why you got above exception.

You can download JSTL tag library from http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/standard/