You can set org.apache.jasper logging level to FINE and see if you can get any useful info. You can also catch org.apache.jasper.JasperException and see if you can figure out the original exception. You can get the source for TldScanner from
https://jsp.dev.java.net/ and do some detective work if you feel inclined. :-)
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