Re: Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class

From:
 Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:19:28 -0700
Message-ID:
<1193422768.935704.26500@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 26, 3:52 am, Christine Mayer <Doo...@gmx.de> wrote:

I am using struts-1.3.8 tiles together with Spring, now I wanted to
implement my own custom tag. Following a book example, I wrote a
TagHandler that extends "SimpleTagSupport". Eclipse told me I needed
to import the jsp-api.2.0.jar from tomcat, so I did.

However, this always results in the error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/myjsp.jsp(1,1) Unable
to read TLD "META-INF/tld/struts-tiles.tld" from JAR file
"file:myFileLocation": org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to
load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class:
org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.UseAttributeTei

I did some research on the web, there it's said not to include the jsp-
api.2.0.jar (but not why not to), and yes, this solves the problem -
but how can I implement my Tag handler without using this jar file?
Eclipse doesn't find the required classes otherwise...


There are actually two classpaths relevant to a program, not one.

To compile your taglib, you do need to have jsp-api.2.0.jar on the
compiler classpath. However, you must not package that JAR with your
application; Tomcat makes it part of the run-time classpath for you.

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