First time use of Tomcat and the Stripes framework

Question

I recently decided to try some java web development, so I installed xampp, the tomcat add-on, and java. I have looked at some of the JSP page examples that came with it, so I know that tomcat is at least working. However when I threw the stripes folder into the same examples directory and tried to access the files I received the following error.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://stripes.sourceforge.net/stripes.tld cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

Now, I am a complete beginner when it comes to using tomcat or jsp pages in general. I may have missed some trivially easy step. I have searched the web for a few hours and I haven't found a very good tutorial on how to set up and start using the stripes framework. So let me know if you have any input or links to help me resolve this issue and get started coding.

Answer 1

Take a look at Quick Start Guide for Stripes. There is also a sample app included as part of Stripes download.

Note that you have to deploy that sample app as web application in Tomcat (e.g. copy war file to Tomcat's webapps folder), you can't just "throw stripes folder" into 'examples'.

Answer 2

The specific issue is a missing jar file. As of Stripes 1.5.3 the error is a bit different:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

I copied jstl.jar and standard.jar from the examples lib to my app's lib, and the app launched fine afterwards.