Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
No, you don't. If the TLDs are properly placed in the web app, no entry in the deployment descriptor is necessary.
This is true in case of the
servlet specifications 2.4 (
J2EE 1.4), but you have to put the <taglib> declaration in older versions, which are still widely used (Especially servlets 2.3 in J2EE 1.3) till this day in a lot of companies worldwide.