Enabling the Hover-Over-Help Feature Using JSP Custom Tags
4. Installation
The installation procedure is fairly straight forward. After adding the jar file – MYTagLib.jar -- into the /WEB-INF/lib directory in your web project, you can use the deployment descriptor editor in RAD/RSA to complete the installation:
- Develop your own message loader class and add a context parameter with the name “BubbleMsgLoaderClass” and the value as the fully qualified name of your class.
Figure 4 – adding your class name as a Server Context Parameter
- Create a listener. The class name is: com.myuan.tags.bubblemsg.serverside.CacheInitializer, and the class is shipped in the TagLib.jar file.
Figure 5 – creating the listener with the shipped class
- Add the servlet class in the framework into the deployment descriptor in your web project. The servlet class is also shipped in the MYTagLib.jar.
Figure 6 – creating a servlet with the shipped class
- Define the taglib element in the /WEB-INF/web.xml file.
Figure 7 – adding the tag lib references
- Define the tag extension in your JSP pages. The <taglib-uri> and the uri directive must match. The prefix identifies the tags in the tag library within the jsp page. For example:
<%@ taglib uri=”http://yourcompany.com/bubblemsg” prefix=”mt” %>
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Comments
Andrew Crawford replied on Tue, 2008/10/21 - 8:09pm
I know you are trying to do this without Javascript, but seriously, it's only one line to include a script library like OverLib and one or two lines to actually use it in your code. No extra CSS necessary.
There's also nothing stopping you from using JSP scriptlets to make sure multiple messages will still point to the same reference.
Dmitry Namiot replied on Wed, 2008/10/22 - 2:29pm
Venkata Prasad replied on Tue, 2008/11/04 - 4:46am
Hello .. I am unable to find the downloadabel Jar file link. Is it free or commercial