Packaging and Installing a Tag Library

There are basically two ways the files that make up a tag library (the TLD and all the class files) can be made available to a container: packaged in a JAR file or kept as regular files directly in the web application structure in a WAR file (or the filesystem for most containers). On top of this, there are three ways to identify the tag library you use in a JSP page. Let’s look at the topics one at a time.

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