Embedded Tomcat?

["David J. Willkomm" <dw...@opentext.com>]

I am building a JSP 1.1 container for a cross-platform, web-enabled application server and was hoping to use Jasper 1) in the runtime context of my container to generate classes from JSP source (this may be on the TODO list; see excerpt below), and 2) at build time via a command line interface to generate Java source from JSP source (this is already on the TODO list; see excerpt below).  Specifically, I need to generate classes in specific packages with specific names that extend a specific class.

I have successfully executed a Tomcat generated class in my container by pilfering the Java source from Tomcat's work directory, adding my package statement, modifying the class name and extends clause, and commenting out the _jspx_init() related code.

My question is, (how) can my container invoke Jasper in order to generate classes compatible with my container?  I have started by implementing a custom Mangler and JspEngineContext; however, they assume a runtime context that makes it difficult to embed in my server.

Any help is appreciated!

Dave


$Id: TODO,v 1.4 1999/12/09 03:14:59 craigmcc Exp $

  * Tomcat core

    * Better factor out parsing and processing modules to make clearly
      separated lines between servers and containers.

    * Work with J2EE team and other server vendors to better define the
      interfaces that allow Tomcat to be embedded into their products.

    * Implement command line compilation of JSP to servlets. Make this
      an Ant task.