Why: File "/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" not found.

[Robin Clark]

I am getting the above error in my index.jsp. My web.xml looks like this:

  
 
<!-- Struts Tag Library Descriptors -->
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-bean</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-logic</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-nested</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-tiles</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 
  

My index.jsp has the following:

  
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
 
  

My web app directory structure is as follows:

WebRoot
->WEB-INF
->->struts-html.tld
->->struts-logic.tld
->->tags
->->->struts-html.tld
->->->struts-logic.tld

Note that I have struts-html.tld and struts-logic.tld under BOTH WEB-INF and WEB-INF/tags but they are still not being found.

When I start my application server and execute the application, I receive the following error:

  
/index.jsp(1): Error in using tag library uri='/tags/struts-html' prefix='html': The Tag class 'org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag' has no setter method corresponding to TLD declared attribute 'name', (JSP 1.1 spec, 5.4.1)
probably occurred due to an error in /index.jsp line 1:
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %> 
  

If I use the following code in my index.jsp the application works fine:

  
 
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
 
  

Can someone explain to me why I am having troubles accessing the tld files locally?

Thank you.

[Merrill Higginson]

The latest versions of Struts (1.2.9 and above) in fact do not support a name attribute in the <html:form> tag. It has been deprecated. This means there's nothing wrong with your tag library declarations. You just need to remove the name and type attributes from your <html:form> tag.

[Vikrant Korde]

We were also facing the same problem.
The solution to this is to use correct version of the.tld file.

Compare the file
/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld
and the file present in struts.jar \META-INF\tlds\struts-html.tld

There must be some differences between these 2 files.

The reason it was working for 2nd code, is because when you put http://struts.apache.org/tags-html then it takes the tld from the JAR file directly. and in previous case it takes from web-inf directory.