Can't figure out how to use taglibs for JSP

Travis86 · 04-05-2004, 10:03 PM

I'm trying to learn JSP, and I've got enough working so that the simple "Hello, World" program works. The source is as follows:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<% String title = "Hello World JSP"; %>
<TITLE><%= title %></title>
</head>
<BODY>
<H1><%= title %></h1>
</body>
</html>

Now I'm trying to run this program:

Code:

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>hi</TITLE>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><c:out value="hi"></p>
</BODY></HTML>

Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

I found that I was missing the standard taglibs, but even after I installed them, it didn't work.

These are the files in /WEB-INF/lib/ directory:
dom.jar
jaxp-api.jar
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
jstl.jar
sax.jar
standard.jar
xalan.jar
xercesImpl.jar

All the files I need are there, right? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Travis86 · 04-06-2004, 09:58 PM

And for the eight people who looked at this previously: yes, I did change the question around a bit. Now, instead of asking where to put the files, I ask why are the files a put there working.

Kind of confusing, but it's better than starting a new thread.