jsp: style tags not workign in tomcat

<jsp: style tags are being ignored and I have to use teh <% style tags.
Any idea why the new style tags would not be working? I mean then dont even compile into the servlet when I use netbeans IDE to compile the server page. Tomcat treats them just as poorly but I thought tomcat 4.1.12 should be doing this because of the spec???
Whats going on?

Yes, we should be able to. But they do not work. Is Tomcat in violation? Or is their some config parameter which turns them off?
Do I need a specific html DTD??
...lost

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<testTagPrefix:myFirstTag/>
in web.xml I have definition:
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>testTagURL</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/testTag.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
I have testTag.tld file located at: /WEB-INF/tld
When I execute my program I am getting:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: File "/test-jsp/testTagURL" not
found
My question: how come my program is looking for "/test-jsp/testTagURL" and
not for "/WEB-INF/tld/testTag.tld"?
Thanks,
Zalek

means what it says.
If you look in the file WEB-INF/displaytag.tld you'll see it
has a definition for a custom tag, I'm guessing it's called column.
The tld states that this tag has an attribute called "value". ie that
in a jsp file you would write
<display:column value="SomeSuperValue" /> However the java class that implements that custom tag
does not have a setter method for value. ie. the class
org.displaytag.tags.ColumnTag is missing the method
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Hi, I am writing simple JSP pages and running it on
Tomcat.
I create a jsp file that has frame in it
(call this chat_entry_frame.jsp)
In the frame I call other 2 jsp pages.
(which is chat_entry.jsp and chat_control.jsp)
When I test both chat_entry.jsp and chat_control.jsp
separately, they both fine.
But when I try to call chat_entry_frame.jsp, it did not
show anything.
I have not create web.xml file inside my application...
I just call both jsp files by specifing their path (relative
path). All jsp files I put in the same directory.
So, I wonder what is wrong?
Thanks in advance for help and suggestion!
Here are the jsp files:
chat_entry_frame.jsp:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<%@ page errorPage="chat_error.jsp" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined">
</meta>
<title> Online Chat Frame </title>
</head>
<body>
<frameset cols="25%, 75%" border="0">
<frame src="/chat/jsp/chat_control.jsp" name="entry_control">
<frame src="/chat/jsp/chat_entry.jsp" name="entry_screen">
</frameset>
</body>
</html>
chat_control.jsp:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<%@ page errorPage="chat_error.jsp" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined">
</meta>
<title> Online Chat </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#00FFFF">
<font face="Verdana" color="black">
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 rows=4 cols=1 width=100% bgcolor=#00FFFF>
<tr>
<input type="hidden" name="chatCommand" value="register_entry"></input>
<input type="submit" value="Register" name="register"></input>
</tr>
<tr>
<input type="hidden" name="chatCommand" value="faq_entry"></input>
<input type="submit" value="FAQ" name="faq"></input>
</tr>
</body>
</html>
chat_entry.jsp:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<%@ page errorPage="chat_error.jsp" %>
<%
String username = "";
try
username = (String) session.getAttribute("username");
if (username == null)
username = "";
catch (java.lang.NullPointerException ex)
username = "";
%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined">
</meta>
<title> Online Chat </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#00FFFF">
<font face="Verdana" color="black">
<h3 align="center"> Login Page </h3>
<br>
<h5>
<form name="chat_entry" method="POST" action="/chat/servlet/ChatEngine">
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 rows=4 cols=1 width=100% bgcolor=#00FFFF>
<tr>
<td><label for="username">Username: </label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="username" value=<%=username%> ></input></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="password">Password: </label></td>
<td><input type="password" name="password"></input></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="hidden" name="chatCommand" value="check_login"></input></td>
<td><input type="submit" value="login" name="submit"></input>
<form name="forgot_password" method="POST" action="/chat/servlet/ChatEngine">
<input type="hidden" name="chatCommand" value="forgot_password"></input>
<input type="submit" value="Forgot Password" name="submit"></input>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</h5>
</body>
</html>

Hi,
Your problem is not with TomCat, When you specify a frameset, the HTML code cannot have the body tag, just remove it from your chat_entry_frame.jsp and it has to work.
Hope this helps...

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Hi, can anyone advise as to whether my tag library code (based
on Apache Jakarta Project) will actually achieve connection
pooling functionality across my entire JSP based application? I
am slightly concerned that my OracleConnectionCacheImpl object
may exist multiple times, hence rendering my conection pooling
attempt useless.
package com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionCacheImpl;
* <p>JSP tag connection, used to get a
* java.sql.Connection object.</p>
* <p>JSP Tag Lib Descriptor
* <pre>
* <name>connection</name>
<tagclass>com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection.ConnectionTag</t
agclass>
* <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>
<teiclass>com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection.ConnectionTEI</t
eiclass>
* <info>Opens a connection based on a jndiName.</info>
* <attribute>
* <name>id</name>
* <required>true</required>
* <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
* </attribute>
* </pre>
* @author Matt Shannon
public class ConnectionTag extends TagSupport {
static private OracleConnectionCacheImpl cache = null;
public int doStartTag() throws JspTagException {
try {
Connection conn = null;
if (cache == null) {
try {
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup
("jdbc/pool/OracleCache");
cache = (OracleConnectionCacheImpl)ds;
catch (NamingException ne) {
throw new JspTagException(ne.toString());
conn = cache.getConnection();
pageContext.setAttribute(getId(),conn);
catch (SQLException e) {
throw new JspTagException(e.toString());
return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE;
package com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport;
* <p>JSP tag closeconnection, used to close the
* specified java.sql.Connection.<p>
* <p>JSP Tag Lib Descriptor
* <pre>
* <name>closeConnection</name>
<tagclass>com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection.CloseConnectionTag&
lt;/tagclass>
* <bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
* <info>Close the specified connection. The "conn"
attribute is the name of a
* connection object in the page context.</info>
* <attribute>
* <name>conn</name>
* <required>true</required>
* <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
* </attribute>
* </pre>
* @author Matt Shannon
* @see ConnectionTag
public class CloseConnectionTag extends TagSupport {
private String _connId = null;
* The "conn" attribute is the name of a
* page context object containing a
* java.sql.Connection.
* @param connectionId
* attribute name of the java.sql.Connection to
close.
* @see ConnectionTag
public void setConn(String connectionId) {
_connId = connectionId;
public int doStartTag() {
try {
Connection conn = (Connection)pageContext.getAttribute
(_connId);
conn.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
// failing to close a connection is not fatal
e.printStackTrace();
return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE;
public void release() {
_connId = null;
package com.solved.tag.dbtags.connection;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagData;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagExtraInfo;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.VariableInfo;
* TagExtraInfo for the connection tag. This
* TagExtraInfo specifies that the ConnectionTag
* assigns a java.sql.Connection object to the
* "id" attribute at the end tag.
* @author Matt Shannon
* @see ConnectionTag
public class ConnectionTEI extends TagExtraInfo {
public final VariableInfo[] getVariableInfo(TagData data)
return new VariableInfo[]
new VariableInfo(
data.getAttributeString("id"),
"java.sql.Connection",
true,
VariableInfo.AT_END
data-sources.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE data-sources PUBLIC "Orion data-
sources" "http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/data-sources.dtd">
<data-sources>
<data-source
class="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionCacheImpl"
name="jdbc/pool/OracleCache"
location="jdbc/pool/OracleCache"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle1:1521:pdev"
>
<property name="maxLimit" value="15" />
<property name="cacheScheme" value="2" />
<property name="user" value="console" />
<property name="password" value="console" />
<description>
This DataSource is using an Oracle-native DataSource Class so as
to allow Oracle Specific extensions.
A getConnection() call on this DataSource will return
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.
The connection returned is a logical connection.
The caching scheme in place is Fixed Wait. Refer below to
possible values.
Dynamic 1
Fixed Wait 2
Fixed Return Null 3
</description>
</data-source>
</data-sources>
many thanks,
Matt.

Hi. Show me your pool definition.
Joe
Ramamurthy wrote:
I am using the jsp custom tag library from BEA called sqltags.tld which came with Weblogic 5.1. Currently I am using Weblogic6.1 sp2 on Solaris.
I have created a Connection Pool for Sybase database using the driver com.sybase.jdbc.SybDriver.
When I created jsp page to connect to the connection pool using sqltags custom tag library, I am getting the error
"javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Failed to write body content
at weblogic.taglib.sql.ConnectionTag.doAfterBody(ConnectionTag.java:43)
at jsp_servlet.__hubwcdata._jspService(__sampletest.java:1014)"
After this message, whenever I try to access the same jsp page I am getting the message
"javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Failed to load JDBC driver: weblogic.jdbc.pool.D
river
at weblogic.taglib.sql.ConnectionTag.doStartTag(ConnectionTag.java:34)
at jsp_servlet.__hubwcdata._jspService(__sampletest.java:205)".
Can you please help me the reason why this problem is happening and how to fix this ?
This problem doexn't happen consistently. This occurs once in a while.
I tried to increase Login delay Seconds parameter in the Connection Pool to 15 sec. It didn't help me much.
Thanks for your help !!!
Ram

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' target="-blank" onclick=""><c:out value="${row_rowNum}"/>
</display:column>
here i got the exception:
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here if jstl is not used then how to put my value in anchor tag
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