<style>
/* Changing the layout to use less space for mobiles */
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px), screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
    #email-body { min-width: 30em !important; }
    #email-page { padding: 8px !important; }
    #email-banner { padding: 8px 8px 0 8px !important; }
    #email-avatar { margin: 1px 8px 8px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }
    #email-fields { padding: 0 8px 8px 8px !important; }
    #email-gutter { width: 0 !important; }
}
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<div id="email-body">
<table id="email-wrap" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#f0f0f0;color:#000000;width:100%;">
    <tr valign="top">
        <td id="email-page" style="padding:16px !important;">
            <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#ffffff;border:1px solid #bbbbbb;color:#000000;width:100%;">
                <tr valign="top">
                    <td bgcolor="#3e4c4e" style="background-color:#3e4c4e;color:#ffffff;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1;"><img src="https://www.jboss.org/dms/hibernate/images/jira/jiraheader_hibernate.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:top;" /></td>
                </tr><tr valign="top">
    <td id="email-banner" style="padding:32px 32px 0 32px;">
        
                
                    <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;">
    <tr valign="top">
        <td style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;padding:0;">
                                        <img id="email-avatar" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/94e7fdd6b2dc215dd59777be08c744c9?d=mm&s=48" alt="" height="48" width="48" border="0" align="left" style="padding:0;margin: 0 16px 16px 0;" />
                        <div id="email-action" style="padding: 0 0 8px 0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">
                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="michaelisvy" id="email_michaelisvy" href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=michaelisvy" style="color:#6c797f;">Michael Isvy</a>
     created <img src="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HV-792'>HV-792</a>
            </div>
                        <div id="email-summary" style="font-size:16px;line-height:20px;padding:2px 0 16px 0;">
                <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HV-792'><strong>EL dependency causes incompatibility with Tomcat 6</strong></a>
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    </tr>
</table>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
    <td id="email-fields" style="padding:0 32px 32px 32px;">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding:0;text-align:left;width:100%;" width="100%">
            <tr valign="top">
                <td id="email-gutter" style="width:64px;white-space:nowrap;"></td>
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                    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Issue Type:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                <img src="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug">        Bug
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Assignee:</strong>
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                    Unassigned
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Created:</strong>
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        03/May/13 7:00 PM
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Description:</strong>
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>See here if you'd like to reproduce this issue:<br/>
<a href="https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic/tree/hibernate-validator-5.0.1" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic/tree/hibernate-validator-5.0.1</a></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>When not including any EL dependency in my POM, I can browse all pages and only get an error when validating a form.</p>
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org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance()Ljavax/el/ExpressionFactory;
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.triggerAfterCompletionWithError(DispatcherServlet.java:1259)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:945)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:936)
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>After including the EL dependencies, I then get a conflict between 2 versions of EL and I can't even access the application homepage anymore.</p>

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javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving <span class="code-keyword">interface</span> method <span class="code-quote">"javax.servlet.jsp.JspApplicationContext.getExpressionFactory()Ljavax/el/ExpressionFactory;"</span> the class loader (instance of org/apache/jasper/servlet/JasperLoader) of the current class, org/apache/jsp/WEB_002dINF/jsp/welcome_jsp, and the class loader (instance of org/apache/catalina/loader/StandardClassLoader) <span class="code-keyword">for</span> resolved class, javax/servlet/jsp/JspApplicationContext, have different <span class="code-object">Class</span> objects <span class="code-keyword">for</span> the type javax/el/ExpressionFactory used in the signature
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:268)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:264)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1208)

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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Project:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
        <a style="color:#6c797f;" href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HV">Hibernate Validator</a>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                        <img src="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/major.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Major">                Major
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Reporter:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="michaelisvy" id="email_michaelisvy" href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=michaelisvy" style="color:#6c797f;">Michael Isvy</a>
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