Question

I am running simple JSP pages (in a Spring 3.1 web app) decorated with sitemesh, but without including sitemesh-decorator.tld and sitemesh-page.tld explicitely in my project. It works.

Yet, I see sample projects explicitely including these files in a \WEB-INF\tld folder. Is this necessary? If yes what for?

For example, one project has a generic taglibs.jsp page imported in all pages. It includes:

...
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/decorator" prefix="decorator" %>
...

For the records

There is not point into inserting:

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/decorator" prefix="decorator" %>

in a JSP page to be processed by sitemesh. This include should only appear in decorator pages.

Answer 1

There is no need to include these .tld(s) into your applicataion \WEB-INF\tld. They can be loaded directly from sitemesh.jar/META-INF directory.