What's the oldest version of Tomcat that supports JSTL?

Question

I'm stuck with Tomcat 3.3 for this project I'm working on. Is there any version of JSTL that can be made to work with this dinosaur?

Answer 1

Did you try what is suggested in the readme file?
COMPATIBILITY
The 1.0 version of the Standard Taglib has been tested under Tomcat 4.0.4
and should work in any compliant JSP 1.2 container.  To use this
distribution on earlier versions of Tomcat (such as 4.0.3), however, you
may need to work around a container bug that prevents JAXP 1.2 classes
from loading successfully.
To do this, you should to replace the JAXP 1.2 JAR files included with
this distribution (in the 'lib' directory) with older XML-related JAR
files. To obtain these older, unsupported libraries, you can download the
file named
     jakarta-taglibs-standard-oldxml-compat.tar.gz
or
     jakarta-taglibs-standard-oldxml-compat.zip
from the same directory from which you downloaded this distribution
(http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/releases/standard/).
Once you have obtained these files, install them (crimson.jar and
xalan.jar) into your WEB-INF/lib directory in place of the following files
from this distribution:  jaxp-api.jar, dom.jar, sax.jar, xercesImpl.jar,
and the newer xalan.jar.
Note that upgrading to Tomcat 4.0.4 is recommended and that we provide
these older libraries as a temporary convenience for those who have not
yet upgraded.Good luck,
evnafets