org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl

Question

I have a web service project implemented in java and it also contains jsp pages. I deploy it on jetty 8.1.5 on my machine and it works normally. But when I deploy on a windo

Answer 1

I faced the same problem and tried all suggestions, none worked for me. I finally found out that the issue was caused after using Spring Boot overriding my tomcat version, as I had

<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0.M2</version>

Removing the Spring Boot solves the problem. This answer could provide the solution for using Spring Boot + Maven + Tomcat 8.