Compiling tags

Question

Hi all,
I'm sure this is a 'duh' question. I've been playing around with Netbeans and Forte4J before deciding on JDeveloper. I moved over some tags I had developed using Netbeans. Nothing fancy, just learning excercises mostly. However, there is one tag, which is really a base class for some of my other tags, that won't compile under JDev. I get the errors:
Error(163,11): variable EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED not found in class tomm.html.tags.HtmlFormElementBase
Error(189,11): variable EVAL_BODY_AGAIN not found in class tomm.html.tags.HtmlFormElementBase
I have changed the references to _INCLUDE and _TAG in order to compile, but my understanding is that the first two are preferred.  Am I running afoul of some deprecated symbols?
At first I thought I was using v1.4 symbols but that doesn't seem to be the case. But while I'm thinking about it -- is there a projected time for the release of ojvm 1.4?
Not critical (yet). Just curious.
Tomm

Answer 1

There is no need to use tld files with tag files when it comes to running the ear file through appc. When I do development I use a tld file that contains references to all the tag files, however my build process replaces that with the tag files directory:
So, during development I have:
web.xml:
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://name/cps/tagfiles</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/mytags.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
mytags.tld:
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
<short-name>mytags</short-name>
<uri>mytaglib</uri>
<tag-file>
<name>agreementDetailsLayout</name>
<path>/WEB-INF/tags/agreementDetailsLayout.tag</path>
</tag-file>
During the build I have:
web.xml:
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://name/app/tagfiles</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tags</taglib-location>
</taglib>
If I don't do this appc will have a fit of even bigger proportions (more error messages etc.)