Since Tomcat 9.0.31 [1] introduced ServiceLoader entry to META-INF for EL [2] following exception occurred [3].

The same for 'jakarta.el:jakarta.el-api:3.0.3' and its FactoryFinder.

1. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html
2. https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/9.0.31/res/META-INF/jasper-el.jar/services/javax.el.ExpressionFactory
3.
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Tomcat].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.handleSubClassException(LifecycleBase.java:440)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1384)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1374)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75)
at java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:134)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:909)
... 40 more
Caused by: javax.el.ELException: Provider # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more not found
at javax.el.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:64)
at javax.el.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:103)
at javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance(ExpressionFactory.java:140)
at javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance(ExpressionFactory.java:110)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl.<init>(JspApplicationContextImpl.java:49)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl.getInstance(JspApplicationContextImpl.java:78)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getJspApplicationContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:217)
at org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.WeldServletLifecycle.initialize(WeldServletLifecycle.java:219)
at org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.EnhancedListener.onStartup(EnhancedListener.java:62)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5135)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:183)
... 46 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1365)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1188)
at javax.el.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:48)
... 56 more