Try the link below for info. Hope this helps
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2000/jw-0811-jsptags.html
Njoy
Tripat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Bergsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: help on taglib
> Anurag Gupta wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Does anybody have experience with the JSP taglib? I am trying to
use
> > taglib, but running into the problems. I am getting the following error
> > message:
> >
> > Could not locate TLD META-INF/taglib.tld
> >
> > BTW, I am using Tomcat and Apachi. Do I need to configure Tomcat to
> > be able to use taglib? I noticed that there was no directory, named
> > META-INF under webapps. I created one by this name and moved my .tld
file
> > in this directory, but, it didn't help.
>
> If you look in the JSP 1.1 specification (plus the errata for the spec),
> you see that there are three ways to identify the TLD for a tag library.
>
> In all cases you need a taglib directive in the JSP page:
>
> <%@ taglib uri="something" prefix="myprefix" %>
>
> It's how "something" is interpreted that's interesting. It can be one
> of three things:
> 1) A symbolic name, e.g. "/mytaglib". The JSP container looks in the
> web.xml
> file for a <taglib> element with a nested <taglib-uri> element that
> has the same value as the uri attribute in the taglib directive. If
> it finds one, it uses the path specified by the <taglib-location>
> subelement to locate the TLD. The path found this way can be of one
> of the two types described in 2) and 3).
> 2) A path to the TLD file itself, e.g. /WEB-INF/tlds/mylib.tld.
> 3) A path to a JAR file that contains the TLD (plus all tag library
> classes). In this case, the TLD must be located in the
> META-INF/taglib.tld file within the JAR file.
>
> So, the error message you get means that the uri attribute doesn't
> follow one of the three rules. It sounds like you use path to a
> tag library JAR file, and that this JAR file doesn't contain the
> TLD (at least not in META-INF/taglib.tld).
>
> Hans
> --
> Hans Bergsten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com
> Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com
>
>
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