Why? Thats one to complain to the spec people about.
You can use Bill's idea of symlinks.
My preference is to use the build process to make copies of the pages from a
central repository.
Another alternative is to precompile those common jsps and place them into
a JAR and alter web.xml with
Is it possible to share JSP page across multiple web-application within tomcat
servlet container? Something like the libraries, which we want to share across
multiple web application can be placed under the shared directory of tomcat.
If it's not possible, why it has been not designed like
I think that is what the crossContext attribute of the Context tag is
for (in server.xml or a context configuration file). I've never bothered
using it so don't just take my word for it. Go ahead and read Tomcat's
docs on the subject.
Jake
At 09:50 AM 9/5/2003 +0530, you wrote:
Is it
It depends what you want to accomplish basically. Personally, I prefer
symlinking the pages (of course, after enabling the symlink option :). This
results in seperate class files for each context that uses the page, but is
easy to maintain. Alternatively, you can pre-compile the JSP to
