After sitting in on a phone conversation with one of the CMS company developers the other day it turns out that they actually are working on something more robust (though maybe not quite what i had in mind for templating language type deals) for the CMS, it’s just that the people higher up the chain here keep giving us copies of old code to work with rather than getting us copies of the new modern “not hideous” code. we’ll have to see if we can work on that i guess…

If there’s anyone out there who knows how to talk a total n00b through getting JSTL set up for Tomcat 4.1 I’d appreciate the help to no end.

My ultimate goal here is to set up a custom JSP tag library for the stuff we do at work (sort of like the Textpattern template tags) to use with our content management system, but all the tutorials I find are “install tomcat 5, then in the JSP2.0 spec you just…” and the server that the CMS actually runs on is only tomcat 4.1 so nothing I try from the book™ seems to actually work the way I think it will.

Furthermore: Who licenses out a content management system that doesn’t include any sort of developer documentation for using it?