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Tim has just given his talk at ApacheCon NA about Servlet 3.0 / Tomcat 7.0. It was really my first taste of the 3.0 spec and I had a thought about the new features available for webapp configuration /other/ than web.xml: - - web.xml fragments - - class annotations The current method for JSP precompilation (which I've never used, mind you, so forgive my ignorance if I'm incorrect) is cumbersome: - - run the compiler - - copy the new .class files somewhere - - drop a huge load of junk into web.xml It occurred to me that that these new servlet 3.0 features could help JSP precompilation. Let's see what Tomcat 7.0's JSP precompiler could do (roughly): $ jsp-precompile /path/to/jsps my-jsps.jar $ cp my-jsps.jar /path/to/webapps/mywebapp/WEB-INF/lib (done) The precompiler could translate and compile all of the classes and package them into a .jar file for you. Great. What about servlet mappings? Well, we have two options: 1. Use annotations in the translated .java files 2. Generate a web.xml fragment and stuff it into my-jsps.jar/WEB-INF/web-fragment.xml Does anyone have any preferences? I suppose it could be an option to the precompiler, or we could even do both (do duplicate mappings conflict?). Hopefully, this will make JSP precompilation less onerous for users. Thanks, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzUER4ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCfUgCgtgRRQd+Qw6X2aLDWyHq0STbd UzgAnR7DtoAKbzLOdRSLWFPX4Qjp9UN5 =k337 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
