How to use JSP tags defined in a freemarker template available in the final rendered page

quophyie <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:56:36 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi  All 

I am having a few problems with importing jsp tags into my freemarker
templates and i was hoping someone  could help.

The problem is this. I have a freemarker file which defines a few jsp
taglibs which I would like imported into all my jsp files. My jsp tags are
defined in a file called jspTags.flt as defined below

jspTags.ftl

<#assign c=JspTaglibs["http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"]> 
<#assign fmt=JspTaglibs["http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt"]> 
<#assign form=JspTaglibs["http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"]>

I have then defined my freemarker template as follows

freemarkerTemplate.ftl

<#include "jspTags.ftl">
 <html>
	<head>
           <title>My Site - {title}</title>
     </head>
	<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
	  <h1>My freemarker template </h1>
            {body}
      </body>
</html>


Now I want to apply  the template to a JSP page as defined below

login.jsp

<html>
	<head>
           <title>Login</title>
     </head>
	<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <@form.form action="loginAction.jsp" method="POST">
             <table border="1">
                <tr>
                   <td>
                      My Login Page!!!
                   </td>
                </tr>
             </table>
          </@form.form>
        </body>
</html>


However, I when I try and access the page (login.jsp), I get an error like 

Expression form is undefined on line 14, column 3 in view/login.jsp.
The problematic instruction:
----------
==> user-directive form.form [on line 14, column 1 in view/login.jsp]

So my question is, If I have my jsp tags defined in one file(jspTags.ftl)
and include it my template(freemarkerTemplate.ftl), how do I make the 
jsp tags available in the view(login.jsp) that the template is being applied
to.

Any help will be very much appreciated. 

Thanks
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