Why is this JSTL giving this error?

Question

This code :
<c:set var="rssTitle" scope="page">
     <rss:itemTitle feedId="example1" index="1"/>
</c:set>---
Gives this error :
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/el/VariableResolver
While this code works :
<jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" />
Date: <c:out value="${now}"/>---
What is wrong?
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Hmmm...something similar happening to me.
Using sql tag libs The following works:
<c:out value="${sites.rows[0].name}" />but this causes the class not found exception for VariableResolver
<c:set var="site" value="${sites.rows[0]}" scope="session" />
<c:out value="${site.name}" />Now functionally these should be doing pretty much the same thing but the second gives an exception. I'm not convinced that this is an Aopache problem since the VariableResolver class is supposed to be in the javax.servlet.... package which is NOT something Apache get to mess with.
I've checked my jstl.jar and sure enough the class isn't there but I can't find a version of the jar file which DOES contain it. Any help anyone ?
For the completists among us;
Tomcat 4.1.24
Tlib 1.0
JSP version 1.2
Regards
KC