Hi, I have a problem compiling a JSP upon its first run. I got org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException: C:\tomcat\webapps\wroxPJSPch12\hello.jsp(0,0) Unable to open taglibrary hello : C:\tomcat\webapps\wroxPJSPch12\hello (???) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.handleDirective(JspParseEventListener.java:713) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DelegatingListener.handleDirective(DelegatingListener.java:116) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser$Directive.accept(Parser.java:215) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1077) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1042) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1038) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:182) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:462) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:433) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:152) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:164) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:391) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:210) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
Everything is in the respective right places. web.xml describing the tag in Web-Inf; hello.jsp in Web-inf/classes/; hello.tld linking the tag to the class in Web-inf/tlds/, and the tag class tagext.HelloTag.class in Web-inf/classes/tagext/.The only thing not implemented is MANIFEST.MF which should go under Meta-Inf/ because it's not mentioned in the example and I inuitively think it is not essential. Can anyone please help?