JSP directive attribute from expression

[Martin Lira]

Hi,
Can we do this for a jsp directive:

<%@ taglib uri="<%=location%>" prefix="MS" %>
instead of 
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tags.tld" prefix="MS" %>

I tried the first one and the jsp page does not compile and gives me error for the tag I am using <MS:tt/>

Is there a work around or as its a directive you have to hard code the uri attribute.

Thanks
Martin
[ October 21, 2004: Message edited by: Martin Lira ]

[Bear Bibeault]

No. There is no work-around.

I cannot imagine a scenario where you need to do this. What is your actual issue?

[Martin Lira]

Bear,
Its just incase uri location might be changed in future. You will not have to modify the jsp page. You just change a property file. We have multiple installations of our web-apps at our development facility, client place etc.

Martin

[Bear Bibeault]

Perhaps you could use a build-time mechanism to substitute the appropriate URI in place (Ant has such tools), but there's no run-time mechansim to do so.

[Bear Bibeault]

And, if you like (I don't), you can abstract the URI in the web.xml file so that, in the event of a change, only the web.xml would need to be updated.
[ October 21, 2004: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]