problem in tags,please help!!!

[Hd Desai]

hello.
i am writing simple tag for accessing database.
i am getting follwing error
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weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspException: (line 26): Could not parse deployment descrip
tor: java.io.IOException: cannot resolve '/WEB-INF/DemoTags.tld' into a valid ta
g library
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.jspException(JspLexer.java:863)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.mTAGLIB_DIRECTIVE_BODY(JspLexer.java:47
14)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.mTAGLIB_DIRECTIVE(JspLexer.java:4538)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.mDIRECTIVE(JspLexer.java:4385)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.mSTANDARD_THING(JspLexer.java:2223)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.mTOKEN(JspLexer.java:2006)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.nextToken(JspLexer.java:1888)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspLexer.parse(JspLexer.java:1107)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspParser.doit(JspParser.java:89)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspParser.parse(JspParser.java:193)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.Jsp2Java.outputs(Jsp2Java.java:119)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.CodeGenerator.generate(CodeGenerator.java:255
)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.compilePage(JspStub.java:341)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.prepareServlet(JspStub.java:201)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.prepareServlet(JspStub.java:154)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.
java:370)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:240)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:321)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:198)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppSe
rvletContext.java:2637)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestIm
pl.java:2359)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:139)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:120)
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i am using weblogic 6.1
i have put my tld file in /WEB-INF/DemoTags.tld
i don;t know why i getting this error.
my tld file is as follow.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">
<taglib>
<tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
<jspversion>1.2</jspversion>
<shortname>DemoTags</shortname>
<uri>http://www.stardeveloper.com</uri>;
<info>Demo Tags Library</info>
<tag>
<name>displaydata</name>
<tagclass>Tags.DataAccessTag</tagclass>
<teiclass>Tags.DataAccessTagTEI</teiclass>
<bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>
<info>Data Access Tag.</info>
</tag>
</taglib>

and my class file is in /WEB-INF/classes/Tags/DataAccessTags.java
and /WEB-INF/classes/Tags/DataAccessTagsTEI.java
package Tags;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTag;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag;
public class DataAccessTag implements BodyTag
{
private PageContext pc=null;
private BodyContent body=null;
private StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();
private Connection conn=null;
private Statement stmt=null;
private ResultSet rs=null;

public void setPageContext(PageContext p)
{
pc=p;
}

public void setParent(Tag t)
{
}

public Tag getParent()
{
return null;
}

public int doStartTag() throws JspException
{
String path="jdbc dbc:Names";
String sql="select ID,first_name,last_name from Names";
try
{
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
conn=DriverManager.getConnection(path);
stmt=conn.createStatement();
rs=stmt.executeQuery(sql);
setVariables();

}catch(SQLException e)
{
throw new JspTagException("An SQLException occured");
}catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
{
throw new JspTagException("Jdbc driver not found");

}
return EVAL_BODY_TAG;

}

public void setBodyContent(BodyContent b)
{
body=b;
}

public void doInitBody() throws JspException{}

private boolean setVariables() throws JspTagException
{
try
{
if(rs.next())
{
pc.setAttribute("id",rs.getObject(1).toString());
pc.setAttribute("first_name",rs.getObject(2).toString());
pc.setAttribute("last_name",rs.getObject(3).toString());
return true;
}else
{
return false;
}
}catch(SQLException e){
throw new JspTagException("SQLException occured");
}

}

public int doAfterBody() throws JspException
{
try{
sb.append(body.getString());
body.clear();
}catch(IOException e){
throw new JspTagException("Fatal IOException");
}
if(setVariables())
{
return EVAL_BODY_TAG;
}
try{
body.getEnclosingWriter().write(sb.toString());
}catch(IOException e){
throw new JspTagException("fatal IOException");

}
return SKIP_BODY;

}

public int doEndTag() throws JspException
{
try{
if(rs!=null)
{
rs.close();
rs=null;
}
if(stmt!=null)
{
stmt.close();
stmt=null;
}
if(conn!=null)
{
conn.close();
conn=null;
}
}catch(SQLException e){

}
return EVAL_PAGE;
}

public void release()
{
pc=null;
body=null;
sb=null;
}
}

and DataAccessTagTEI.java
package Tags;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
public class DataAccessTagTEI extends TagExtraInfo
{
public VariableInfo[] getVariableInfo(TagData data)
{
return new VariableInfo[]{
new VariableInfo("id","java.lang.String",true,VariableInfo.NESTED),
new VariableInfo("first_name","java.lang.String",true,VariableInfo.NESTED),
new VariableInfo("last_name","java.lang.String",true,VariableInfo.NESTED)
};
}
}

please help me...

[Faisal Khan]

May I suggets not re-inventing the wheel and use standard tags (unless of course you are trying to do something radically different). JSTL has tags for querying the database and most containers allow connection pooling so it will be better to use that route.

[Srinivas Jag]

In the JSP where u use the taglib directive, see if you've specified the proper path to the TLD file

[Bear Bibeault]

When does this error occur? When the servlet container is starting up, or when you hit a page?
bear

[Hd Desai]

i am getting error when i run the JSP page..
please help me
Thank you.

[Sachin Junghare]

You may getting error do to tld cannot find by JSP.I am not find any error in class and tld file created by you.I work on Tag library in Apache-Tomcat enviroment so I may wrong.
I do it as

1. Create a tld file
2. Create a handler (classess)
3. Modify the Web.xml (include the tld file location)
4. restart the server
Now you can access the Tag in JSP with url mention in Web.xml.
Do you miss some steps while porting ....
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Sachin.