title: Enabling JavaServerPages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) in JSP
body: <p>I feel like I am missing something - from what it seems, JSP comes out of the box with support for tags, as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/475839/how-can-i-escape-special-html-characters-in-jsp">this question's answer</a> shows (the guy was asking a pure-jsp question and got an answer involving tags).
  But if I try to run the given code</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;c:out value="${myString}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(with <code>myString</code> defined before, of course), the jsp just writes the above line into the html.</p>
  
  <p>Do I have to do something extra to enable it?</p>