How to add TLD and Tag Lib files into a Maven's jar project

Question

I have a Maven project that is packaged as jar.

And I also have a Maven project that is packaged as war. This war project has a tld file and so

Answer 1

@duffymo - Your solution totally works. Adding graphic to your description.

Create a maven project that generates JAR. keep the structure like this below

 src -- main
            |-- java
            |      `-- net
            |            `-- madhur
            |                 `-- helloTag.java
            `-- resources
                  `-- META-INF
                        `-- tags
                             `-- customTags.tld

To your customTags.tld file add uri something like this

http://www.xyzabc.com/taglibs/customTags

Accessing tags in you WAR file

War should have following structure

  META-INF/
  META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
  WEB-INF/
  WEB-INF/classes/
  WEB-INF/lib/
  WEB-INF/lib/{tagLibrary}.jar
  WEB-INF/web.xml
  WEB-INF/customTags.tld

web.xml

    
        
            www.xyzabc.com/taglibs/customTags
            /WEB-INF/customTags.tld
        
    

Using tag in FTL or JSP file

Ftl:

<#assign ct = JspTaglibs["www.xyzabc.com/taglibs/customTags"]>