Tag Libraries Unable to load in SOWS 6.1

Question

Hi all,
I've been hitting into a problem lately with the SOWS 6.1, funnily, my JSP page can't seem to find the tag attributes I'm using.
Eg:
<display:table...> //displaytag
<c:if...> //JSTL core
The Error I'm getting is as below:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: WEB4083: No such tag forEach in the tag library imported with prefix c
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: WEB4083: No such tag forEach in the tag library imported with prefix table[/cold]
JSP is on the same level as the WEB-INF directory
LIB is inside /WEB-INF (/WEB-INF/lib)
My /https-server/config/server.xml has the following:<PROPERTY name="docroot" value="/data/<project-name>"/>
<USERDB id="default"/>
<SEARCH>
<WEBAPP uri="/search" path="/opt/SUNWwbsvr/bin/https/webapps/search" enabled="true"/>
</SEARCH>
<WEBAPP uri="/projectroot" path="/data/<project-name" enabled="true"/>
Things I've done so far:
Failed Resolution 1)
I've tried placing and defining the tablibs inside the web.xml
<taglib>
           <taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
          <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>and also inside the JSP page:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>and also placed the c.tld inside the /WEB-INF folder, the standard.jar and jstl.jar into /WEB-INF/lib
Failed Resolution 2
Since the META-INF directory already contains the TLDs for the JARs, what I did was to remove the declaration from web.xml, and replaced the codes in JSP as follows:
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/lib/standard.jar" prefix="display" %>
Still, to no avail, the JAR files are in /WEB-INF/lib.
Failed Resolution 3
Go to GOOGLE, tried googling for answers for 3 days, can't get it working.
Previously, I have run struts taglibs on Tomcat/JBOSS, spring/displaytag taglibs on WebLogic 8.1.2. But this time my new office's seutp has me stumbling to get taglibs to run on the SOWS 6.1
Would appreciate any feedback :)
thanks and regards,
Michael

Answer 1

Alright, I did it the unorthodox way.
I found out that the JSP is unable to read the WEB-INF directory some some apparent reason and thus is unable to look up the TLD file. Tried loading the ResponseOverrideFilter for displaytag and I saw the Log4J logs being generated, so for sure the JARs are being loaded and working fine.
I placed the TLDs into the same directory as the JSPs and viola! My taglibs are all working.
It's not much of a solution, but at least for the moment I can get my work done and generate my tables for export on the JSPs.
I'm still puzzled to why it's inability to pick up the TLDs although it's already existing in the JAR(s), and WEB-INF and now I've to spoil it totally by placing a copy in the JSP directory.
It was trying to look for /projectroot/WEB-INF/c.tld whereby my WEB-INF is on the same level as projectroot.
Just did a <%@ taglib uri="c.tld" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="displaytag-11.tld" prefix="display" %>And now the tags are fine.
I'm still looking for an explanation and guides to why this is happening to my SOWS. I've no idea who was the bright spark that earlier configured the system this way.
All I can look forward to is to rearchitect the design and redo this application to v2 on Hibernate 3 and JSF/AJAX.
regards,
Michael