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Is it possible to use a TagLib without defining a web app using Tomcat? [I'm using .jsp without webapps and everything's ok, but I can't make it work with taglibs]

Created May 4, 2012

Stacy Curl

When using taglibs with an application you specify the location of a tag library in the web.xml file, web.xml resides in TOMCAT_ROOT/webapps/APPNAME/WEB-INF. The taglib entries in web.xml look like: 

    <taglib>
        <taglib-uri>
            blahblah
        </taglib-uri>
        <taglib-location>
            /WEB-INF/jsp/BlahBlah.tld
        </taglib-location>
    </taglib>
There is another web.xml which seems to be a global one: TOMCAT_ROOT/conf/web.xml Simply place the above XML there, the last entry in my conf/web.xml was a "welcome-file-list" entry, the taglib xml can be placed after that. I don't know where the .tld file should be placed, maybe under TOMCAT_ROOT/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/jsp ?