12.2. Installing and Configuring JSTL
Before you can use the standard tag library, you must perform the following seven steps.
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Download the JSTL files.
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Access the JSTL documentation.
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Make the JSTL classes available to the server.
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Put the JSTL TLD files in the WEB-INF directory.
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Create aliases for the TLD file locations.
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Define the expression language in web.xml.
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Download and install an XML parser.
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The following subsections give details on each of these steps.
Downloading the JSTL Files
The home page for JSTL is http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html. There should be a prominent link on that page specifying where to obtain the JSTL code. When this book went to press, that link referred to ...
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