Why can't TOMCAT see WROX directory?

I5commuter · May 29th, 2008, 08:25 AM

I am executing the 2nd phase of a web app from Chapter 16 of Wrox 'Beginning Javaserver pages'.
The logs are showing this error :
'The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application'

The following is the directory structure of my development environment:

C:\Data\WebPages\chapter16\ (root)
Structure under root directory:
+---web
| | index.html
| | showDate.jsp
| |
| +---lib
| | jstl.jar
| | standard.jar
| |
| \---WEB-INF
| web.xml
|
\---work
    | tldCache.ser
    |
    \---org
        \---apache
            \---jsp

This is the content of the showDate.jsp as documented in the book on pages 526-527

<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" />
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      Current Date and Time
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>
      Date and Time
    </h1>
    The date and time is :
    <fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="both" />
  </body>
</html>

Can anyone see why TOMCAT can't 'see' the showDate.jsp file?
Thank YOU.