[wildfly-dev] Taglibs - correct location of TLD files packaged in JARs

Hi folks, we have an issue [0] where a web app with JAR packaged taglib is migrated from Tomcat to Wildfly/EAP and the two servers are resolving tablib location differently. The taglib file in the JAR is located in META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/tlds/hi.tld. It's added to the taglib map explicitly via <taglib> element in web-fragment.xml (in the same JAR): <taglib> <taglib-uri>/HiTag</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tlds/hi.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> This works in Tomcat, which takes *META-INF/resources/* as the root for resolving <taglib-location>, and doesn't work in Wildfly, which takes *META-INF/* as the root. The functionality is described by JSP SPEC section 7.3 (I don't want to quote any parts here, because I would have to quote all of it) [1]. After going through it I think our interpretation is the correct one, though Apache think the contrary [2]. However, would it hurt if we added META-INF/resources/ as another root to allow both options? [0] The issue: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-14757 [1] JSP spec: http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/jcp/jsp-2_3-mrel2-eval-spec/ [2] I wrote to Apache mailing list and Jeremy Boynes replied: """ Here’s how I read the spec. JSP 7.3.3 talks about a “taglib map” using elements in the deployment descriptor per your example. Per JSP 7.3.2 the URI is mapped to a context relative path interpreted relative to the root of the web application. Resources contained in a web fragment jar are located in its /META-INF/resources directory. Tomcat/Jasper are synthesizing the effective web application from the resources in the fragments, then resolving the URI in the taglib map against that merged application. I think that’s a correct interpretation of the spec. JSP 7.3.1 refers to implicit map entries found by scanning the web application’s jars from WEB-INF/lib. """ http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-taglibs-user/201805.mbox/... -- Tomas Hofman Software Engineer, JBoss SET Red Hat