I have a custom tag library that works fine in prior releases of JBoss 2.x/Tomcat.

I downloaded JBoss 3.0.2 w/Jetty, and JBoss 3.0.0 w/Tomcat and the tag precompilation seems to be wrong.

The following show how Jasper generates different code between JB 3.x and JB 2.x.

A simple tag that fails:


button
com.moose.tags.BopButton
JSP

Generates a button/action "name".


name
true




Using JBoss3.0.2/Jetty where it fails:
// begin [file="/entity_main.jsp";from=(72,0);to=(72,25)]
/* ---- bop:button ---- */
com.moose.tags.BopButton _jspx_th_bop_button_1 = new com.moose.tags.BopButton();
_jspx_th_bop_button_1.setPageContext(pageContext);
_jspx_th_bop_button_1.setParent(_jspx_th_bop_template_0);
_jspx_th_bop_button_1.setName("New");
try {
int _jspx_eval_bop_button_1 = _jspx_th_bop_button_1.doStartTag();
// end
// begin [file="/entity_main.jsp";from=(72,0);to=(72,25)]
if (_jspx_th_bop_button_1.doEndTag() == javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.SKIP_PAGE)
return;
} finally {
_jspx_th_bop_button_1.release();
}
// end
// HTML //
Using JB 2.x/Tomcat where it works:
// begin [file="/entity_main.jsp";from=(71,0);to=(71,26)]
/* ---- bop:button ---- */
com.moose.tags.BopButton _jspx_th_bop_button_0 = new com.moose.tags.BopButton();
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.setPageContext(pageContext);
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.setParent(_jspx_th_bop_template_0);
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.setName("Save");
try {
int _jspx_eval_bop_button_0 = _jspx_th_bop_button_0.doStartTag();
if (_jspx_eval_bop_button_0 != javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.SKIP_BODY) {
try {
if (_jspx_eval_bop_button_0 != javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE) {
out = pageContext.pushBody();
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.setBodyContent((javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyContent) out);
}
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.doInitBody();
do {
// end
// begin [file="/entity_main.jsp";from=(71,0);to=(71,26)]
} while (_jspx_th_bop_button_0.doAfterBody() == javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTag.EVAL_BODY_AGAIN);
} finally {
if (_jspx_eval_bop_button_0 != javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE)
out = pageContext.popBody();
}
}
if (_jspx_th_bop_button_0.doEndTag() == javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.SKIP_PAGE)
return;
} finally {
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.release();
}
// end

As you can see, the failing code does not generate as much code, including ....
_jspx_th_bop_button_0.doAfterBody()

which generates the HTML.

I noticed JB 2.x includes jasper.jar, and JB 3.x includes org.apache.jasper.jar.

Anybody have any ideas? I developed this in a vacuum so I'm open to the possibility that I'm doing something dumb that has been working by accident.