Re: Non valid web.xml files in various taglibs examples

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Pae Choi wrote:

> Allow me to sneaking in you folks' thread. While I was reading
> Craig's response, I was just curious that if Tomcat v3.2.1 has a
> same feature, "validating parse of web.xml", as well?
>

Tomcat 3.2.1 is a little bit perverse on this topic.

The servlet container does *not* validate the web.xml file when the web
application is initialized, but the JSP servlet *does* validate the web.xml
file if you use a custom tag library.

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> Pae
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Craig McClanahan