Hi all!
I have a question regarding deployment of portlet applications. Within
my portlets, I use JSP for markup creation, and within my JSPs, I use
the portlet specific tag library (for portlet URL creation within the
markup).
My aim is to create war files which may be installed on any JSR 168
compliant portlet container.
I use the taglib directive within my JSPs like this
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/portlet"; prefix="portlet"%>
My question: Am I supposed to include the tag library descriptor within
my war-file and declare it in the web.xml file? I think I can't, because
the file is vendor specific, the spec defines only the tags itself, not
the implementing Java classes.
Cite JSR 168: "The portlet-container must provide an implementation of
the portlet tag library."
If I use Pluto, and do not include a tld-file in the war and the
web.xml, it works fine: the portlets work after deployment although I do
not know why (first I thought Pluto "enhances" my web.xml by adding the
tag lib, but this is not the case). But what about others?
Are there any recommendations/best practices about that? Am I supposed
to change the tld-file before I deploy it to a specific portal (as
described for BEA here:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2004/09/deployJava81sp3.html).
Thanks in advance and greetings from Hamburg covered in snow, Stefan
