Hi Peter (and anyone else following this thread),
If it's any consolation, I've asked the same question on many mailing lists
over a long period of time, and nobody's given a working answer yet.
I have a JDK installed (hence I've got "javac"), plus Jikes. When using
Jikes from the commandline, it works fine. I've even uncommented the line
in "web.xml". But I never seemed to get it working, as in "the pages still
compiled, but there was no way of knowing if it was jikes or javac that did
it...". I tried renaming Jikes.exe to _jikes._exe to see if Tomcat missed
it, but it didn't complain, so I just assumed it hadn't been taken into
account anyway.
I suspected that I needed to copy all (or part) of the default web.xml into
each web-app's WEB-INF folder, uncommenting the "jikes" line as appropriate.
However, this didn't work at all well, as it seemed to give Tomcat a
headache. I've already posted on this ("overriding default web.xml with
custom web.xml). Not a lot of luck there either...
Hope someone can give a clear answer as to how to do this -- and verify that
it works!
-Chris Brown
----- Original Message -----
From: "WEST, Peter"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:19 PM
Subject: Jikes and Tomcat for JSP compilation
>
> can anybody point me to a straightforward "how to get Tomcat to compile
JSPs
> with Jikes rather than JDK" tutorial?
>
> So far I have changed web.xml server.xml (both of which made no
difference).
> I have also read that it may be necessary to change the source of a line
in
> webserver.jar I have the details of this but dont exactly believe it is
> necessary??
>
> Any pointers? Ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Pete
