Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-07-06 Thread Neil Zanella
Excellent idea. I should have a look at the document type definition for the web.xml file to find out where exactly I should place the context-param element and its contents, and then perhaps also validate the resulting XML file with an XML validator with the DTD also supplied as input. The

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-07-05 Thread N. Chen
do you have taglib define in the web.xml file? might be the ordering of your other directives, try looking at the DTD. nick On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Neil Zanella wrote: Well, now I am not entirely sure that it is mandatory, because I have a JSP page such that when I change the WEB-INF/web.xml

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-07-04 Thread Neil Zanella
Well, now I am not entirely sure that it is mandatory, because I have a JSP page such that when I change the WEB-INF/web.xml to include the following lines (for connecting to a database which is not yet on the network): context-param param-name javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.dataSource

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-30 Thread Michael Duffy
I should point out, in the interest of intellectual honesty, that I didn't lick this off the grass. I learned it after reading a well-written explanation by Shawn Bayern. Proper credit should be given where it belongs. - MOD --- guo yingshou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your info. I

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, [gb2312] guo yingshou wrote: If it is *mandatory*,why the web-app.dtd still specifiy an optional taglib element?Just for backward compatibility? That's part of it, and it's also necessary for cases where a tag library doesn't package its JAR in the format necessary for it

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread guo yingshou
Have you configured the taglib in your web.xml using taglib element ? --- Neil Zanella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have installed Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.24 and Jakarta Taglibs 1.0.3, both of which support the JSP specification. I found the README file

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread Neil Zanella
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, [gb2312] guo yingshou wrote: Have you configured the taglib in your web.xml using taglib element ? No I have not because: 1. I have not seen anything about this in the documentation. 2. I have read that Tomcat 4.1.24 has an autodetection feature which makes this

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread guo yingshou
Have a look at servlet specification. --- Neil Zanella [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, [gb2312] guo yingshou wrote: Have you configured the taglib in your web.xml using taglib element ? No I have not because: 1. I have not seen anything about this in the documentation.

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread Neil Zanella
Well, I just had a look at the instructions at: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/standard/GettingStarted.html and they say to copy the contents of directory: /usr/local/jakarta-taglibs/standard-1.0.3/lib to the WEB-INF/lib directory. That worked, but once again, it seems

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Duffy
Actually, step 3. is unnecessary. When you create the JAR file for your handler, the TLD file goes inside it. It's already got the URI string you should use in your JSP. When the JSP compiler goes looking for your TLD, it'll find it in the JAR because it's already in the CLASSPATH. That's

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Michael Duffy wrote: Actually, step 3. is unnecessary. When you create the JAR file for your handler, the TLD file goes inside it. It's already got the URI string you should use in your JSP. When the JSP compiler goes looking for your TLD, it'll find it in the JAR

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread guo yingshou
Are you sure it works on all j2ee complaint servlet engine? thanks. --- Michael Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, step 3. is unnecessary. When you create the JAR file for your handler, the TLD file goes inside it. It's already got the URI string you should use in your JSP. When the

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, [gb2312] guo yingshou wrote: Are you sure it works on all j2ee complaint servlet engine? The behavior is mandated by sections 7.2.1 and 7.3.1 of the JSP 1.2 specification, so all compliant containers support it; if a product claiming compliance doesn't support it, then it's

Re: Jakarta Taglibs Installation

2003-06-29 Thread guo yingshou
Thanks for your info. I never do that before.Maybe I need to have a detailed look at the sections you mentions if I have time later.After a glimpse of these lines,a question pops up my mind: If it is *mandatory*,why the web-app.dtd still specifiy an optional taglib element?Just for backward