To be more exact, JSP's are pre-compiled into a
special servlet source (java files). The servlets
are compiled into classes.
There exist mechanism for pre-compiling the JSP to classes,
before the first user request is received.
You can find these special servlet .java files in the
tomcat/work/ directory.
There is no rendering mechanism per-say. In the end,
the JSP/Java files write information using JspWriter
class that subclasses from java.io.Writer.
To me, a JSP is just another view of a Servlet, without
all the ugly print statements. The reason this is important,
is that you can do all those things that servlets can do, well sort of.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Reddin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:00 PM
> Subject: RE: Struts behind the scene
>
>
> Shelly,
>
> I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but I'll give it a shot.
>
> Struts does not generate anything. You write the JSP's that Struts
> uses. When your JSP pages are invoked the first time, the web container
> (i.e. Tomcat, etc.) compiles the JSP's and renders them. That's why it
> is slow the first time.
>
> Hope that helps.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > [mailto:IMCEACCMAIL-struts-user+40jakarta+2Eapache+2Eorg+20at+
> > 20INTERNET
> > @alltel.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:27 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > Subject: Struts behind the scene
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could somebody explain me how struts work behind the scenes. The
> > particular case being there is template, content and the renderer.
> >
> > So does it create precompiled jsps or how does it work coz the very
> > first time you render a page it's very slow
> >
> >
> >
> > Shelly
> >
