Ahh, just one more thing, do not even try to modify Jasper itself
unless you know what you are doing; Most people experimenting with
Jasper end up in nothing.

- lg




On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Lucas Galfaso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>   To answer the original question, there is a mechanism that Tomcat
>  provides to handle the specific thing you want to achieve. The
>  solution is very Tomcat specific, so I do not really recommend it,
>  anyhow, if you really _need_to_have_this_ then the way to achieve it
>  is the following:
>
>   - Extend the class FileDirContext to take a second parameter, this
>  second parameter is the path that will override the standard path.
>  Code everything into that class so that it works as you expect.
>  Compile and add the .jar to Tomcat library.
>   - Add your own context.xml to the application you want to have this
>  special behavior, just copy the standard one from the conf directory
>  from Tomcat. In this context.xml add a new resource that points to
>  your new class with the new path.
>   - Done.
>
>  This is simpler to explain it that to do it, but it is something that
>  should be easy to build and test within a day if you know what you
>  have to change and what you want to achieve.
>
>  Regards,
>   Lucas Galfaso
>
>  PS: This will make yous web app not 100% standard, and if you have to
>  migrate this behavior to other web containers, it might get trickier,
>  so be sure that you really need this.
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Hassan Schroeder
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Andy Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  Many people suggested that I try various frameworks
>  >  >  for the application because they contain template
>  >  >  engines that may work for my purpose. Unfortunately,
>  >  >  I think that this is a non-starter because the app
>  >  >  is already written (quite nicely, I might add) in
>  >  >  straight JSPs.
>  >
>  >  If it's already "quite nicely" written, why doesn't it do what you want? 
> :-)
>  >
>  >  Just askin' ...
>  >
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>  >
>  >
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