Custom URI in JSP Custom Tag

Custom URI in JSP Custom Tag
Example to use Custom URI in JSP Custom Tag

We can use the custom URI, to tell the web container about the tld file. In such case, we need to define the taglib element in the web.xml. The web container gets the information about the tld file from the web.xml file for the specified URI.

Example to use custom URI in JSP Custom Tag

In this example, we are going to use the custom uri in the JSP file. For this application, we need to focus on 4 files.

index.jsp
web.xml
mytags.tld
PrintDate.java

index.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="mytags" prefix="m" %>
Today is: <m:today></m:today>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app 
  PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" 
  "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> 

<web-app>

<jsp-config>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>mytags</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/mytags.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</jsp-config>

</web-app>

mytags.tld

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib
        PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN"
        "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd">

<taglib>
  <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
  <jsp-version>1.2</jsp-version>
  <short-name>simple</short-name>
  <uri>mytags</uri>
  <description>A simple tab library for the examples</description>

  <tag>
    <name>today</name>
    <tag-class>com.javatpoint.taghandler.PrintDate</tag-class>
  </tag>
</taglib>

PrintDate.java

package com.javatpoint.taghandler;

import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport;

public class PrintDate extends TagSupport{

public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
	JspWriter out=pageContext.getOut();
	try{
		out.print(java.util.Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
	}catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
	
	return SKIP_BODY;
	}
	

}

download this example

Next TopicRegistration Form In Jsp

<<prev next>>