location of tld files

[Lucas Smith]

There is written in HFSJ that tld files must be placed:
1). inside /WEB-INF dir or its subdirectories
2). inside /META-INF or its subdirectories if we have JAR file

But I know that there can be a map in web.xml.
We can put <taglib> inside <jsp-config> and connect TLDs with URIs.
Can we put tlds in another directory and create that map explicitly?

[Ankit Garg]

I just tried it and yes it can be done. If you place your tld file outside the WEB-INF folder and map it in the web.xml, then it works...

[Abhay Agarwal]

Hi Ankit

Please post a sample code

Thanks

[Ankit Garg]

I placed mytags.tld in a folder named "whatever" in the web applications root and included this in the web.xml

<jsp-config>
     <taglib>
          <taglib-location>/whatever/mytags.tld</taglib-location>
          <taglib-uri>newURI</taglib-uri>
     </taglib>
</jsp-config>

[Lucas Smith]

OK, thank you.
So not only /WEB-INF rocks