Can not find the tag library descriptor of springframework

Question

I\'m trying to follow the example of spring JPetStore but I get an error in the JSP pages in the line that references the lib tag spring:

Can not find the ta

Answer 1

I know it's an old question, but the tag library http://www.springframework.org/tags is provided by spring-webmvc package. With Maven it can be added to the project with the following lines to be added in the pom.xml

<properties>
    <spring.version>3.0.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

Without Maven, just add that jar to your classpath. In any case it's not necessary to refer the tld file directly, it will be automatically found.

Answer 2

If you are using maven use this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

I had the same issue with weblogic 12c and maven I initially while deploying from eclipse (kepler) (deploying from the console gave no errors).

The other solutions given on this page didn't help.

I extracted the spring.tld spring-form.tld files of the spring-webmvc jar (which I found in my repository) in the web\WEB-INF folder of my war module;

I did a fresh build; deployed (from eclipse) into weblogic 12c, tested the application and the error was gone;

I removed the spring.tld spring-form.tld files again and after deleting; rebuilding and redeploying the application the error didn't show up again.

I double checked whether the files were gone in the war and they were indeed not present.

hope this helps others with a similar issue...

Answer 4

add external jar of jstl-standard.jar as the external jar by right click on JRE system libraries under configure build path -> build path. it worked for me!!

Answer 5

Removing the space between @ and taglib did the trick for me: <%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" %>

Answer 6

I finally configured RAD to build my Maven-based project, but was getting the following exception when I navigate to a page that uses the Spring taglib:

JSPG0047E: Unable to locate tag library for uri http://www.springframework.org/tags at com.ibm.ws.jsp.translator.visitor.tagfiledep.TagFileDependencyVisitor.visitCustomTagStart(TagFileDependencyVisitor.java:76) ...

The way I had configured my EAR, all the jars were in the EAR, not in the WAR’s WEB-INF/lib. According to the JSP 2.0 spec, I believe tag libs are searched for in all subdirectories of WEB-INF, hence the issue. My solution was to copy the tld files and place under WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF.. Then it worked.