5 Administration and Configuration

Create a tag library descriptor (TLD).

For more information, see Chapter 3, "Creating a Tag Library Descriptor."

Reference this TLD in the Web Application deployment descriptor, web.xml. For example:

<taglib>
  <taglib-uri>myTLD</taglib-uri>
  <taglib-location>WEB-INF/library.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

In this example the tag library descriptor is a file called library.tld. Always specify the location of the tld relative to the root of the Web application.

Place the tag library descriptor file in the WEB-INF directory of the Web application.

Reference the tag library in the JSP page.

In your JSP, reference the tag library with a JSP directive. For example:

<%@ taglib uri="myTLD" prefix="mytaglib" %>

Place the tag handler Java class files for your tags in the WEB-INF/classes directory of your Web application.

Deploy the Web application on WebLogic Server. For more information, see "Deploying and Packaging from a Split Development Directory" in Developing Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server.

Create a TLD (tag library descriptor) file named taglib.tld.

For more information, see Chapter 3, "Creating a Tag Library Descriptor."

Create a directory containing the compiled Java tag handler class files used in your tag library.

Create a subdirectory of the directory you created in step 2 and call it META-INF.

Copy the taglib.tld file you created in step 1 into the META-INF directory you created in step 3.

Archive your compiled Java class files into a jar file by executing the following command from the directory you created in step 2.

jar cv0f myTagLibrary.jar

(where myTagLibrary.jar is a name you provide)

Copy the jar file into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the Web application that uses your tag library.

Reference the tag library in your JSP. For example:

<%@ taglib uri="myjar.tld" prefix="wl" %>