Here's the maven.xml fragment that we use. I'm afraid I can't help any further if this doesn't work - after several failed attempts this is the approach that finally worked for us with Tomcat 5.0.28.
Mark Langley CaseBank Technologies Inc. http://www.casebank.com <project default="build-all" xmlns:maven="jelly:maven" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:u="jelly:util" xmlns:ant="jelly:ant" xmlns:velocity="jelly:org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.velocity.VelocityTagLibr ary" xmlns:deploy="deploy"> ... <!-- - The next three goals are used to pre-compile jsp pages into servlets. - This code is lifted from - http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/CreatingWebApplications --> <preGoal name="war:webapp"> <j:set var="precompileJsp" value="${precompile.jsp}"/> <j:if test="${precompileJsp == 'true'}"> <echo message="Precompiling JSPs. Set precompile.jsp=false in build.properties if you're impatient!"/> <attainGoal name="precompile-jsp"/> </j:if> <j:if test="${precompileJsp == 'false'}"> <echo message="JSPs are NOT being precompiled! Is this a production build???"/> </j:if> </preGoal> <postGoal name="war:webapp"> <j:set var="precompileJsp" value="${precompile.jsp}"/> <j:if test="${precompileJsp == 'true'}"> <j:set var="target" value="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-war-plugin').getVariable('maven.war.web app.dir')}"/> <u:available file="${maven.build.dir}/web-fragment.xml"> <u:loadText var="fragment" file="${maven.build.dir}/web-fragment.xml"/> <ant:replace file="${target}/WEB-INF/web.xml" token="<!-- [INSERT FRAGMENT HERE] -->" value="${fragment}"/> </u:available> </j:if> </postGoal> <goal name="precompile-jsp" description="Precompile all JSPs into java classes, and then into classes" prereqs="war:load,java:compile"> <j:set var="warSource" value="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-war-plugin').getVariable('maven.war.src ')}"/> <ant:mkdir dir="${maven.build.dir}/jspc"/> <ant:mkdir dir="${maven.build.dir}/jspc-processed"/> <ant:mkdir dir="${maven.build.dir}/jspc-classes"/> <j:set var="jspOutDir" value="${maven.build.dir}/jspc"/> <j:set var="jspClassesOutDir" value="${maven.build.dest}"/> <ant:path id="jspc.classpath"> <ant:fileset dir="${java.home}/../lib"> <include name="tools.jar"/> </ant:fileset> <ant:fileset dir="${tomcat.home}/bin/"> <include name="*.jar"/> </ant:fileset> <ant:fileset dir="${tomcat.home}/server/lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </ant:fileset> <ant:fileset dir="${tomcat.home}/common/lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </ant:fileset> <ant:path refid="maven.dependency.classpath"/> <ant:pathelement path="${maven.build.dest}"/> </ant:path> <ant:taskdef name="jasper2" classname="org.apache.jasper.JspC" classpathref="jspc.classpath"/> <ant:java taskname="jspc" className="org.apache.jasper.JspC" failonerror="true" fork="yes"> <ant:classpath refid="jspc.classpath"/> <!-- <ant:arg value="-help"/> --> <ant:arg value="-webapp"/> <ant:arg value="${warSource}"/> <ant:arg value="-d"/> <ant:arg value="${jspOutDir}"/> <ant:arg value="-l"/> <ant:arg value="-p"/> <ant:arg value="your.package.path.here"/> <ant:arg value="-die"/> <ant:arg value="-uribase"/> <ant:arg value="${warSource}"/> <ant:arg value="-uriroot"/> <ant:arg value="${warSource}"/> <ant:arg value="-webinc"/> <ant:arg value="${maven.build.dir}/web-fragment.xml"/> <ant:arg value="-trimSpaces"/> </ant:java> <ant:javac srcdir="${jspOutDir}" destdir="${jspClassesOutDir}" debug="${maven.compile.debug}" deprecation="${maven.compile.deprecation}" optimize="${maven.compile.optimize}" classpathref="jspc.classpath"/> </goal> -----Original Message----- From: Darren Hartford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 9, 2004 1:38 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Class Cast exception trying to use org.apache.jasper.JspC Tried Tomcat 5.0.28, same problem. Using Maven 1.0 final and related plugins, tried Tomcat 5.0.27 libs, 5.0.28 libs, 5.0.29-beta libs, all the same problem. Using commons-el, jasper-runtime, jasper-compile, jsp-api, servlet-api libs from the tomcat distributions. Struts 1.1 libs. commons-lang 2.0, commons-digetser 1.5, commons-validator 1.0.1, commons-beanutils 1.6.1, commons-logging 1.1-dev. Please Help! Confused why having a problem with this, tomcat4.1 works fine. -D > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Langley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:27 AM > To: 'Maven Users List' > Subject: RE: Class Cast exception trying to use org.apache.jasper.JspC > > > We had the same problem two weeks ago. Upgrading Tomcat to > 5.0.28 made it go > away. > > Mark Langley > CaseBank Technologies Inc. > http://www.casebank.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Hartford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 8, 2004 10:54 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Class Cast exception trying to use org.apache.jasper.JspC > > Hey all, > Having an issue trying to pre-compile JSP's for Tomcat5. > > Rather than repeating, below is a post back in March with the > same problem. > > I may just be having a difficult time going through the > mailing list and > using google - I just can not find a solution. Any help > would be greatly > appreciated! (note: my maven.xml is slightly different, but > same problem). > -D --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
