5.8.3

Customizing a Tag Library

A tag library can be customized at assembly and deployment time.  For example, a tag 

library that provides access to databases may be customized with login and password 

information.

There is no convenient place in 

web.xml

 in the Servlet 2.2 spec for customization 

information A standardized mechanism is probably going to be part of a forthcoming JSP 

specification, but in the meantime the suggestion is that a tag library author place this 

information in a well known location at some resource in the 

WEB INF/ 

portion of the 

Web Application and access it via the 

getResource()

 call on the 

ServletContext

.

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