Jan, Sahoo thanks for all the information it's good to understand the special case around certain packages that clears things up. As for my motivation it was really my error turns out I was including the JSTL 1.1 jar's and Sahoo thanks for clearing that up I've removed those jar's from my web application and that cleared up my issue straight away. Thanks again for both of your replies.
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