How to use spring form taglib in conjunction with maven? - forms

Question

I added spring-webmvc to my maven dependencies.
According to some page I found I need to use this:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
It works fine and I can see the jar file in my m2 local repository.
But my problem is that I'm getting an error in my JSP file that says "The tag handler class for "form:form" (org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.FormTag) was not found on the Java Build Path".
It obviously is looking for org.springframework.web.servlet BUT I thought adding spring-webmvc would fix it as mentioned is several search results I've read. Plus I've used "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver" in my spring bean configuration XML so I know it's loading parts of the spring-webmvc.
I've looked at repo1.maven.org and mvnrepository.com and I never saw them mentioned org.springframework.web.servlet.
I then decided to add web.servlet according to the springsource page (http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/bundle/version/detail?name=org.springframework.web.servlet&version=3.1.3.RELEASE)
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
But I then get this error "Missing artifact org.springframework:org.springframework.web.servlet:jar:3.1.3.RELEASE".
I added springsource own repo (http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/faq) to my pom.xml but I get the same "missing artifact" message.
I guess I'm stuck and need your help. thanks :)
Not sure if this is relevant but I've included 3 XML config files. :)
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>Spring3MVC</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
spring-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="org.flinders.staffdirectory.controllers" />
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" >
<value>org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
pom.xml
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.flinders.staff.directory</groupId>
<artifactId>directory-maven</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>directory-maven Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>3.1.3.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>directory-maven</finalName>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

I normally put this page directive at the top of the file:
<%# taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form" %>
Which should make sure that the form taglib is being loaded in the JSP.

Answer 2

Seems like I forgot to pass a modelAttribute to my form:
return new ModelAndView("search/SearchForm", "search", new Search());

Answer 3

I was able to resolve the issue by adding the taglib directive as the first line in the file.