Installation guide

What’s New in iPlanet Web Server, Version 4.1

Creating a JSP Custom Tag Library

iPlanet Web Server 4.1 supports custom JSP tags. This section explains how to create a custom tag

library using a working example. The example includes the following directories and files under

the document root directory:

To create the test-tags.jar file, you must create a work area in which you build the tag library

and its associated handler classes. This work area contains the following directories and files:

Both sets of example files are provided with iPlanet Web Server 4.1 in the following directory:

server_root

/plugins/samples/servlets/taglibs

Step 1: Create the TLD File

You first need to write a tag library definition (TLD) file outlining the custom tags and their

associated handler classes. This TLD file is an XML 1.0 file.

/dtds/

web-jsptaglib_1_1.dtd

/jsps/

test-tags.jar

test-tags.jsp

workarea/taglibs/

./META-INF:

taglib.tld

./examples:

ExampleTagBase.class

ExampleTagBase.java

FooTag.class

FooTag.java

FooTagExtraInfo.class

FooTagExtraInfo.java

LogTag.class

LogTag.java