Here's a quote from the Spring docs about the open/closed principal that I
think Henri is alluding to:
“Open for extension...”
One of the overarching design principles in Spring Web MVC (and in Spring in
general) is the “Open for extension, closed for modification” principle.
The reason that
I don't understand why I didn't get any errors from tomcat when I was missing
the standard taglibs and using the jstl core in my jsp. Once I added the
dependency for standard taglibs to my maven pom.xml then c:forEach started
working; without the dependency it was silently ignored. Is there
