If you have a jsp like this: <%@ include file="include/content1.jsp" %> <%@ include file="include/content2.jsp" %> content2.jsp not found and you get this exception: Caused by: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/views/manager/content/content.jsp (Line: [2], Column: [5]) File [include/content2.jsp] not found both jsp exists and if you link it absolute it works: <%@ include file="/WEB-INF/views/manager/content/include/content1.jsp" %> <%@ include file="/WEB-INF/views/manager/content/include/content2.jsp" %> it seems the second include check relative from the first one and search the jsp at include/include/content2.jsp and there is of course no jsp.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 66277 ***