Can not find the tag library descriptor of springframework

Question

I\'m trying to follow the example of spring JPetStore but I get an error in the JSP pages in the line that references the lib tag spring:

Can not find the ta

Answer 1

I finally configured RAD to build my Maven-based project, but was getting the following exception when I navigate to a page that uses the Spring taglib:

JSPG0047E: Unable to locate tag library for uri http://www.springframework.org/tags at com.ibm.ws.jsp.translator.visitor.tagfiledep.TagFileDependencyVisitor.visitCustomTagStart(TagFileDependencyVisitor.java:76) ...

The way I had configured my EAR, all the jars were in the EAR, not in the WAR’s WEB-INF/lib. According to the JSP 2.0 spec, I believe tag libs are searched for in all subdirectories of WEB-INF, hence the issue. My solution was to copy the tld files and place under WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF.. Then it worked.