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

You can encounter the following exception:

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

Add the following line in your 'build.gradle' file:

compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs");