uri

[Nikhil Jain]

Consider the following taglib definition in the deployment descriptor. Which of the following directives can be used inside a JSP page?
1. <% taglib name="/tableutils" prefix="u" %>
2. <%@ taglib uri="tableutils" prefix="u" %>
3. <%@ taglib uri="/tableutils" prefix="u" %>
4. <%@ taglib="/utils" prefix="u" %>
5. <%@ taglib url="/tableutils" prefix="u" %>


Answer 3 is correct.
Answer 1 is incorrect, the attribute name is invalid with the taglib directive and the directive is incorrectly declared (<% instead of <%@)
Answer 2 is incorrect, the URL within the uri attribute has to be relative according to the web.xml declaration.
Answer 4 is incorrect, the URL is incorrect.
Answer 5 is incorrect, the url attribute is invalid for the taglib directive.

The taglib directive in a JSP page declares that the page uses a tag library, uniquely identifies the tag library using a URI and associates a tag prefix that will distinguish usage of the actions in the library.

--------
I don't understand the question.. In HFS it says, that URI is just a name & not a location & the explaining given is ....??/ please help

[Nikhil Jain]

sorry i forgot to add the dd tags

<taglib> <taglib-uri>/tableutils</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/utils.tld</taglib-location></taglib>

[Christophe Verré]

Which one don't you understand ? Number 2 ?

It says : the URL within the uri attribute has to be relative according to the web.xml declaration.
It's a bit awkward to say it this way indeed. The uri in web.xml starts with a slash, whereas the one in answer two doesn't. As you said, uri is just a name, so it has to match the one you have in web.xml.

[Nikhil Jain]

Yes, this is the reason my answer was correct. But my question was that..the explaning given was not in any way mentioning the concept given in HFS..

[Christophe Verré]

Yes, I think it's misleading too. I think that the answer should be something like : "Wrong. The uri should be the same as the one declared in web.xml".