On 1:59 PM, Nick Williams wrote:
Terence,
In addition to my previous reply to Chris, most of our JSPs are not SUPPOSED
to be accessed as web pages, although some are meant to be. Also,
unfortunately, all of them ARE accessible as web pages due to bad design
(something I intend to change).
Nick
Hi, Nick-
It sounds like migrating JSPs that don't directly respond to servlet
requests to Java classes would greatly simplify management of the
application.
-Terence
-----Original Message-----
From: Terence M. Bandoian [mailto:tere...@tmbsw.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:46 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Precompile JSPs, avoid thousands of servlets?
On 1:59 PM, Nick Williams wrote:
We maintain a very large application, with somewhere around 2,000 JSP
files (in addition to ~250,000 lines of pure Java). We have decided it
is about time we ship our application with precompiled JSP files.
The Ant tasks from Tomcat to support this effort have been extremely
helpful, and I have no serious complaints about them. We can even use
our own package name for the JSPs. Great!
Our first challenge is that we support Tomcat, GlassFish, WebLogic and
WebSphere, so our JSPs have to be precompiled in such a way that they
will run in any of those web containers. We’ll overcome that challenge
I’m sure; if we have to include some extra libraries, we’ll make it work.
Our second challenge is the 11,500-line web.xml file that results
from this process. I understand that Ant does a lot of the hard work
for me, but a web.xml file this large bothers me, even if I don’t have
to look at it during every day development. What’s more, we’re
actually trying to *move
away* from having a web.xml file (of any real substance) and using new
Servlet 3.0 features.
I could swear I saw an example a while ago (while searching Google, of
course) of a web.xml file with a single servlet that responded to
requests for ALL JSPs that had be precompiled, but I can’t find it
anywhere anymore.
I’m sure I *could* write my own servlet to accomplish this, but I’d
sure like to use something existing that already has common usage.
Does anyone have any ideas?
At least web.xml is auto-generated. Are all of the JSPs accessible as web
pages? What I've seen uses annotations and then you have to live with the
startup time.
-Terence Bandoian
P.S. Sorry about the direct e-mail.
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