Can not find the tag library descriptor of springframework

Question

I'm trying to follow the example of spring JPetStore but I get an error in the JSP pages in the line that references the lib tag spring:

Can not find the tag library descriptor for "http://www.springframework.org/tags"

<%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" %>

What is the URL of this library?

Is there any way to avoid the direct dependence on this URL?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I know it's an old question, but the tag library http://www.springframework.org/tags is provided by spring-webmvc package. With Maven it can be added to the project with the following lines to be added in the pom.xml

<properties>
    <spring.version>3.0.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

Without Maven, just add that jar to your classpath. In any case it's not necessary to refer the tld file directly, it will be automatically found.