HTTP Status 500 - The absolute uri: http://www.springframework.org/tags/form cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

message The absolute uri: http://www.springframework.org/tags/form cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://www.springframework.org/tags/form cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:55)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:277)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:75)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTldResourcePath(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:250)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.<init>(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:125)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:421)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:479)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1435)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:139)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:227)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:100)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:199)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:356)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:336)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:323)
	org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:585)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:363)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:396)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:340)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
	org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/8.0.36 logs.