hi david, i read your name from the archive of the JSP interest list i got a terrible problem: i am using tomcat 3.1...and i wanted to write my own custom tag, following the tutorial at the http://jsptags.com site i wrote a very simple tag, that displays 'hello world' i wrote the tld file i package everything in a .jar file..(with the .tld within the meta-inf directory) i set the classpath so that it includes the .jar file now i modified the web.xml of the webapps/web-inf directory for the taglib the problem is that i don't know which taglib-uri to put!!! my .jar file is located in the directory c:\marco i modified the web.xml like this <taglib> <taglib-uri>http://localhost/mytag</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>c:\marco\mytags.jar</taglib-location> </taglib> however, i got always the error Unable to oper taglibrary at http://localhost/mytag, could not locate TLD META-INF/taglib.tld can u help me?? thanx in advance & regards =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets