Re: war deployment and jsp pre-compilation

[Reinhard Nägele]

I'm afraid, I wasn't clear enough explaining the issue. First, let's 
assume, I do not pre-compile my JSPs and deploy the war with the manager 
app.  Upon the first request, Tomcat will go about and compile the JSPs 
to the working directory. As there is no context entry in the 
server.xml, Tomcat will use its default working directory.

Now, I'd like to pre-compile the JSPs including only the compiled JSP 
classes in the war file. This means that Tomcat would have to load the 
JSP classes directly from the war file instead of from its working 
directory. Can this be done?

I hope the issue is clear now.

Thanks for any insight.

Reinhard

Jacob Kjome wrote:

At 11:05 AM 7/11/2003 +0200, you wrote:

Thanks, but that's not the problem. I know how to use Ant and jspc. 
The question is whether/how I can tell Tomcat to load pre-compiled 
JSPs from my war file which is not unpacked as I deploy with 
unpackWars set to false.


The work directory is Tomcat's temp directory.  It is the one place 
that is guaranteed to allow files to be written for a webapp.  It has 
nothing to do with your issue.  Actually, I'm not really sure what you 
are talking about.  Precompiled jsp's added to the webapp are just 
servlets.  You don't need to use File IO to load servlets.  They 
should be able to run out of a .war file just as they can from a 
directory.  You specify this using <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> 
entries in in web.xml just like any other servlet.  Are you saying 
that this works for you when the .war is unpacked, but not when it 
isn't?  That would be truly odd.  you'll need to explain why you think 
things aren't working from a .war file first before anyone can help 
you here.

Jake

Any ideas?

Reinhard

Johannes Fiala wrote:

Hi Reinhard,

Using TC 4.1.24+ you can use ant to first run JspC and deploy the 
resulting WAR using the manager app.

You can find more info here:
http://www.fwd.at/tomcat/buildmanagement-using-ant-howto.html
Johannes



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We deploy our application as war file with the manager. "unpackWars" 
is set to false. Is it possible to deploy pre-compiled JSPs with 
this approach? I guess this would imply that we'd have to have a 
context.xml in our war file specifying that Tomcat should load the 
compiled JSP classes from the war file instead of from its working 
directory. Can this be done?

Reinhard



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