			The JAKARTA-TAGLIBS Project README
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Introduction
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The JAKARTA-TAGLIBS project is a repository of JSP 1.1 custom tag libraries
that have been contributed by developers to the Jakarta project, under the
Apache Software Foundation license.  Its purpose is to provide examples of
tag library creation and use, as well as completed tag libraries that can be
utilized in web applications.

Developers interested in creating new tag libraries, or updating existing ones,
should subscribe to the TAGLIBS-DEV mailing list at the Jakarta web site
<http://jakarta.apache.org>.  Likewise, users of the contributed tag libraries
should subscribe to the TAGLIBS-USER mailing list for asking and answering
questions about the use of the various libraries.

The JAKARTA-TAGLIBS project is independent of the "Standard Tag Libraries"
development process currently being run by Java Software, under the Java
Community Process.  For more information, see JSR-052 on the Java Community
Process web site at <http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess>.

This document contains pointers to more details information sources on
several topics, described below.


Installing and Using the JAKARTA-TAGLIBS Binary Distribution
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You can acquire the JAKARTA-TAGLIBS binary files by grabbing one of the
automated snapshots, milestone drops, or release drops for this project as
described at <http://jakarta.apache.org/downloads/binindex.html>.

For more information about using JAKARTA-TAGLIBS custom tag libraries in your
own web applications, point your browser at the "doc/binarydist.html" file
included in the binary distribution.


Installing and Using the JAKARTA-TAGLIBS Source Distribution
============================================================

You can acquire the JAKARTA-TAGLIBS source files either by grabbing one of the
automated snapshots, milestone source drops, or release source drops for this
project as described at <http://jakarta.apache.org/downloads/sourceindex.html>.
You will also need to acquire a binary release of the JAKARTA-ANT project (or
get the source code and build it yourself), because JAKARTA-TAGLIBS uses the
Ant build tool.

Set up your development directories such that you have Ant and the Taglibs
directories in a parallel position underneath a higher level directory, like
this:

	{your development directory}/
		jakarta-ant/
		    lib/
			ant.jar
			xml.jar
		jakarta-taglibs/
		    {the various JAKARTA-TAGLIBS files and directories}

For more information about modifying existing JAKARTA-TAGLIBS custom tag
libraries, or adding new ones, point your browser at the "doc/sourcedist.html"
file included in the source distribution.


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