diff --git a/hbase-rest/pom.xml b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
index 0cc605da562..f479e891cc8 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@
       <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-server/pom.xml b/hbase-server/pom.xml
index 5954e01924f..77b992dca4c 100644
--- a/hbase-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-server/pom.xml
@@ -495,6 +495,10 @@
       <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml b/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
index 0d6b7eeb078..324255077f2 100644
--- a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
@@ -299,6 +299,10 @@
       <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ed06ff04fb3..6884e7803e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@
     <wx.rs.api.version>2.0.1</wx.rs.api.version>
     <jersey.version>2.25.1</jersey.version>
     <glassfish.jsp.version>2.3.2</glassfish.jsp.version>
+    <glassfish.el.version>3.0.1-b08</glassfish.el.version>
     <jetty.jspapi.version>6.1.14</jetty.jspapi.version>
     <jruby.version>9.1.10.0</jruby.version>
     <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
@@ -1943,6 +1944,11 @@
         <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
         <version>${glassfish.jsp.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+        <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+        <version>${glassfish.el.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
         <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>