Getting tomcat,JSTL and JNDI working

Question

I have been trying to get this working for a quite a while now and I am so confused with different versions and this JNDI. All I want to to do as get taglibs working to query a database. I have installed Tomcat 5.5 and downloaded jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.2 that told me to copy the two lib files and put them in web app lib folder. What do I do next?

Answer 1

this what I did based on what I understood from the notes created a web.xml put in the WEB-INF folder
WEB.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<resource-ref>
  <description>eastenders database</description>
  <res-ref-name>jdbc/eastenders</res-ref-name>
  <res-ref-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-ref-type>
  <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
</web-app>alter the sever.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Server>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener"/>
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    <Environment
      name="simpleValue"
      type="java.lang.Integer"
      value="30"/>
    <Resource
      auth="Container"
      description="User database that can be updated and saved"
      name="UserDatabase"
      type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
      pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"
      factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"/>
<Resource name="jdbc/eastenders" auth="Container"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
     description="eastenders database"/>
  </GlobalNamingResources>
  <Service
      name="Catalina">
    <Connector
        port="8080"
        redirectPort="8443"
        minSpareThreads="25"
        connectionTimeout="20000"
        maxSpareThreads="75"
        maxThreads="150"
        maxHttpHeaderSize="8192">
    </Connector>
    <Connector
        port="8009"
        redirectPort="8443"
        protocol="AJP/1.3">
    </Connector>
    <Engine
        defaultHost="localhost"
        name="Catalina">
      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"/>
      <Host
          appBase="webapps"
          name="localhost">
      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>and also the context file
<!-- The contents of this file will be loaded for each web application -->
<Context>
    <!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
    <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts -->
    <!--
    <Manager pathname="" />
    -->
  <Resource name="jdbc/eastenders" auth="Container"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
     description="eastenders database"/>
</Context>I don't have the commons files the instructions for the taglibs mentioned nothing about that .
Your other two questions I don't know how to deploy web apps and I don't know if I am using war files.
Would your advice to me be forget about these taglibs and just program it using jsp or do you think I should try to get taglibs working?