In my experience the implementation of JSPs is container dependent. This means that some containers have an easy way to compile JSPs and other containers don't. I think it's going to be difficult to produce a generic ant task to compile JSPs.
I was working on a project where we wanted to compile all the .jsp files and package them up for distribution. We were using ServletExec as our servlet container. I scoured the docs looking for a way to compile JSPs and I couldn't find one. The only solution was to copy the JSP files to the web server directory and hit each page one by one. This would cause the container to compile the .jsp files to .class files. I think some containers have a command line program to compile JSP files (Tomcat, maybe?). But that means that those compiled JSP files will only work with that container. If you can choose your container, then you may want to go with a container that has a command line JSP compiler and invoke it through the "exec" task. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Luttrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: compile jsp (request) How do you compile jsp's with ant? If you can't i'd like to request it added to the feature list for v2.0. thanks. .peter
