I'm trying to add Google Maps onto my JSPs by using the Googlemaps taglib.

I've added this into my maven pom

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.lamatek</groupId>
        <artifactId>googlemaps</artifactId>
        <version>0.98c</version>
        <scope>provided<>/scope
    </dependency>

This then included the googlemaps-0.98c library under my project libraries in NetBeans, I right clicked and selected Manually install artifact and located the googlemaps.jar file I had downloaded.

I've then added this into my taglibs file

<%@taglib prefix="googlemaps" uri="/WEB-INF/googlemaps" %>

And have then included this where I actually want to show a map on my jsp

    <googlemaps:map id="map" width="250" height="300" version="2" type="STREET"
                    zoom="12">
        <googlemaps:key domain="localhost" key="xxxx"/>
        <googlemaps:point id="point1" address="74 Connors Lane" city="Elkton"
                          state="MD" zipcode="21921" country="US"/>
        <googlemaps:marker id="marker1" point="point1"/>
    </googlemaps:map>

But when I load up my application, I get the following error.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /jsp/dashboard.jsp(1,1) /jsp/common/taglibs.jsp(6,56) PWC6117: File "/WEB-INF/googlemaps" not found

root cause

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /jsp/common/taglibs.jsp(6,56) PWC6117: File "/WEB-INF/googlemaps" not found

Have I missed something simple? I'm unable to spot what I've done wrong so far..

Generally when you do this:

<%@taglib prefix="googlemaps" uri="/WEB-INF/googlemaps" %>

You are basically trying to say "the folder /WEB-INF/googlemaps has a bunch of .tag files for use" - which you don't.

Just browsing the documentation confirms this - it says you should be using this (note the usage of the tld extension):

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/googlemaps.tld" prefix="googlemaps" %>

Source: http://www.lamatek.com/GoogleMaps/documentation.jsp#installation