title: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ValueExpression
body: <p>i am using tomcat 5.5.12
  i have this code in a jsp file :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;jsp:useBean id="abbreviationlist" class="lexicon.contents.types.AbbreviationListType"/&gt;
  &lt;jsp:setProperty name="abbreviationlist" property="id"/&gt;
  &lt;table&gt;
    &lt;c:forEach items="${abbreviationlist.list}" var="abbreviation"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;/c:forEach&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get this error message - </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/el/ValueExpression
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:272)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)</p>
    
    <p>root cause
            java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
    javax/el/ValueExpression</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>i tried downloadin jstl 1.1 (standard.jar, jstl.jar)
  and putting them inside catalina/commun/lib and inside the WEB-INF/lib directory.
  that didnt help either.
  any help will be appreciated. </p>