Please file a report on bugzilla. If you also include a test case (to save me some typing :)), I'll take a look to see where Jasper is spending its time. Did you said it was in commons-el? That'd be bad.
-Kin-man On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:43, Eric Blenkush wrote: > On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote: > > > Eric Blenkush wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tomcat 5.5.2 I am experiencing very long compile times(and hangs) > >> for certain JSP pages. The page has an EL expression like this: > >> > >> ${fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn: > >> toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn: > >> toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn: > >> toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn:toUpperCase((fn: > >> toUpperCase(('b'))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))} > >> > >> If you remove the extraneous parenthesis it will compile and execute > >> very quickly. However, if you add more nested calls to fn:toUpperCase > >> compiling will again take a very long time. So, this may be related > >> to the number of nested expressions. This is just a test case > >> obviously but I am generating JSPs automatically and it is difficult > >> if not impossible to avoid EL statements with these nested function > >> calls. Resin can compile and execute these pages very quickly but I > >> want to stick with Tomcat. > >> > >> This is crucial to the project I am working on and if someone has an > >> idea of what is causing this and where to look in the tomcat source I > >> would appreciate it. > > > > Please don't whine. I hope you have tested this with 5.0.x as well. > > > > If you have a compilation problem specific to the Java compiler, you > > obviously should: > > - report it to the Eclipse project > > - use Ant + javac to compile instead (remove the > > jasper-compiler-jdt.jar and put ant.jar at the same spot) > > > > You may want to try to generate efficient code. > > > > Any bug filed about the Eclipse compiler (other than an integration > > issue) will be marked as INVALID. > > > > RÃmy > > > > The hang is happening when the .java file is being generated from the > .jsp file. I confirmed this by taking the commons-el-1.0 source and > modifying it to parse the same EL statement as given above and it never > completed. > > Any helpful comments on where to start looking to fix this are welcome. > > Thanks, > Eric > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]