Requirement: command-line interface to pre-compile .JSP

[Ted Eiles <te...@learningmachines.com>]

Hello ---

I'm new to this list so I don't haven't seen the current Josper 
requirements (are they available?).  I have a requirement.

I want to be able to pre-compile all my .JSP's in the servlets.  I would 
expect both the JSP engine would need to have a "static main" and that the 
naming convention for generated servlets be manageable w.r.t. deploying the 
generated .class files (or jar's) into production.

Reason 1:  I can't afford run-time errors that could've easily been found 
by either a JSP translator or a java compiler.
Reason 2: I want to consider .JSP's as source code and not to deploy them 
in my production environments.

--- Ted

Re: Requirement: command-line interface to pre-compile .JSP

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cm...@mytownnet.com>]

Ted Eiles wrote:

> Hello ---
>
> I'm new to this list so I don't haven't seen the current Josper
> requirements (are they available?).  I have a requirement.
>
> I want to be able to pre-compile all my .JSP's in the servlets.  I would
> expect both the JSP engine would need to have a "static main" and that the
> naming convention for generated servlets be manageable w.r.t. deploying the
> generated .class files (or jar's) into production.
>
> Reason 1:  I can't afford run-time errors that could've easily been found
> by either a JSP translator or a java compiler.
> Reason 2: I want to consider .JSP's as source code and not to deploy them
> in my production environments.
>
> --- Ted
>

The JSP 1.1 specification (not yet implemented by the released JSWDK, but
likely to be soon) addresses this need. Section 3.4 describes a protocol for
requesting pre-compilation of your JSP pages in a development environment.
This is useful not only for the reasons you have identified, but also to allow
deployment of JSP pages where there is no compiler available (such as a server
based on a JRE implementation, rather than a JDK.  This feature will be
required of *all* 1.1-compliant JSP engines, not just the Jakarta reference
implementation.

Craig McClanahan