Hi, the "taglib" elements must be encapsulated in "jsp-config": <jsp-config> | <taglib> | <taglib-uri>http://www.springframework.org/tags</taglib-uri> | <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/spring.tld</taglib-location> | </taglib> | </jsp-config> I advice you to use an editor with xml validation for building web.xml, it will safe you a lot of trial and error. I suggest e.g. Eclipse + WebToolsPlatform. Wolfgang View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204338#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...