The following Exception and Stacktrace is raised when attempting to access Tag files packaged in a JAR: ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre></p><p><b>root cause</b> <pre>java.lang.IllegalStateException: zip file closed [java] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ensureOpen(ZipFile.java:398) [java] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry(ZipFile.java:145) [java] at java.util.jar.JarFile.getEntry(JarFile.java:184) [java] at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.getEntry(URLJarFile.java:89) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil.getInputStream(JspUtil.java:857) [java] at org.apache.jasper.xmlparser.XercesEncodingDetector.getEncodingMethod(XercesEncodingDetector.java:160) [java] at org.apache.jasper.xmlparser.XMLEncodingDetector.getEncoding(XMLEncodingDetector.java:99) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.determineSyntaxAndEncoding(ParserController.java:349) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:195) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:150) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:137) [java] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:246) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------