Cemre Ceren Akkan

Using Tomcat 5.5.17 after starting application, jsp pages couldn’t be rendered and the following error is taken with an empty page. To fix the problem simply check the commons-el.jar versions and also remove geronimo-spec-jsp.jar from WEB-INF\lib directory if this jar is not already excluded:

java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/jasper/runtime/PageContextImpl, method: getExpressionEvaluator signature: ()Ljavax/servlet/jsp/el/ExpressionEvaluator;) Wrong return type in function
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.internalGetPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:99)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:61)
at org.apache.jsp.pages.P60.Common.StandardPageParentTemplate_jsp._jspService(StandardPageParentTemplate_jsp.java:87)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)