Smita Kotnis wrote:
> Hi All,
> I need to use a taglib developed by third party in my JSPs.
> I have one .jar and a .tld file with me. Where to put these files so
> that my tomcat 3.2 understands it? I tried following options,
> 1. Made a directory as tld under WEB-INF and tried to call it in my
> JSP as,
>
> <@@ tag lib uri=/WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld prefix=\"test\" %>
> (As described in a book by Hans )
>
> 2. Put that tld in some directory and gave class path pointing to
> that file.
>
> Both of these ways failed. I am still getting the error that tag lib
> not found !!
> What is the exact way to use tag libs? Where to put these files? Thanks
> in advance.
The JAR file always go in the WEB-INF/lib directory for the application.
You can identify the TLD file in two ways in the taglib directive:
1) By using a file path as the "uri" attribute value. For example,
if the TLD file is stored in /WEB-INF/tlds/mylibrary.tld, use
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/mylibrary.tld" prefix="xxx" %>
It sounds like you didn't use the correct path when you tried this
alternative.
2) By using a symbolic name as the "uri" attribute value, and map the
symbolic name to a file path in the web.xml file for the application.
For instance, with the TLD in the same location as before, you
can use <%@ uri="/mylibrary" prefix="xxx" %> if you also put this
in the web.xml file:
<web-app>
...
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/mylibrary</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tlds/mylibrary.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
...
</web-inf>
In both cases, the file path can be to the JAR file instead of to a
separate TLD file, if the TLD is included in the JAR file as
"META-INF/taglib.tld".
All of this is described in my JSP book in Chapter 8, the Using
Custom Actions section, and in more detail in Chapter 16, the
Packaging and Installing a Tag Library section.
Hans
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Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com
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