Mark, thanks for the clarification. I don't know why I assumed it was needed. Awesome! Juan, I'll give that one a shot, thanks!
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:45 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 27/01/18 13:35, Alex O'Ree wrote: > > Using tomcat 8.5... > > > > I have a web app that still uses jsp's and i'm looking into a few options > > to (a) aid development and (b) reduce or eliminate the need for the JDK > in > > a production setup and just run a JRE. > > Tomcat doesn't need the JDK and hasn't for a good number of years. > Tomcat includes the Eclipse compiler and uses that to compile JSPs by > default. > > > (a) Making development easier. My project is maven based and I'd like to > > run some kind of JSP precompile at build time to ensure that all jsp > files > > can be compiled (no typos). I've tried a bunch of examples from SO but > > haven't found anything that functionally works. > > If you don't show us a) what you tried and b) what error message you got > we can't help you and point you in the right direction. > > > (b) Along the same lines, if the solution to question a can inject the > > precompiled jsp files into the WAR, and that is deployed to tomcat, my > > assumption is that the JDK and thus javac would not be necessary at > > runtime. Is this an accurate statement or do other elements within tomcat > > require the JDK? This is assuming that all JSP's deployed to tomcat are > > precompiled somehow. > > The JDK is not necessary to run any currently supported version of Tomcat. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
