There's been a lot of chatter on the tomcat-user list on the subject
of pre-compiling java servlets under Tomcat. (I include the most
complete on the topic below for anyone interested.)
Before I dig in and convert these DOS-based non-Ant instructions into
something I can use under UNIX I wanted to ask y'all whether anyone
out there had already created an Ant task which pre-compiles java
servlets as necessary?
(I'm mostly interested in pre-compiling so my clients don't get that
"first visit slowdown" behavior. I can't guarantee that I'll be able
to manually visit every web page to have Tomcat compile it.)
Thank you for reading this far. It's really appreciated.
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The following has been tested with Tomcat 3.2.1
Jspc in Tomcat 3.1 did not work.
The process is the following:
1. Translate all jsp pages to java Servlet files and generate a web.xml
file
2. Fix web.xml \ to /
3. Compile all generated java files
4. Deploy and run as a Servlet
Step 1:
This can be done with the jspc utility. For example (on line dos command!):
\tomcat\bin\jspc -uriroot \tomcat\webapps\TxMA
-d \tomcat\webapps\TxMA\WEB-INF\classes
-webxml \tomcat\webapps\TxMA\WEB-INF\web.xml
-webapp \tomcat\webapps\TxMA
-uriroot specifies the root of the web application
-d specifies the output directory. The Servlet class files have to be
located under WEB-INF\classes.
-webxml specifies you need a full web.xml file. This is a key step in the
process because that file will contain mappings for all URLs to their
Servlet equivalent (thus we don't have to rewrite all our href hyperlinks
when running in Servlet mode).
-webapp specifies we want to translate the complete application
Step 2:
Substitute all \ with /
This is because of a bug in the current implementation of jspc (on windows
only).
Step 3:
The key of that step is to have the proper libraries in the classpath.
Here is a dos batch file that would do it:
SET JAVA_HOME=e:\jdk1.3.0_01
set TOMCAT_HOME=e:\tomcat321
set CP=%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\ant.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\jasper.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\jaxp.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\parser.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\servlet.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\webserver.jar
set CP=%CP%;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps\TxMA\WEB-INF\classes
echo.
echo Using CLASSPATH: %CP%
echo.
set CLASSPATH=%CP%
echo ON
javac %TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps\TxMA\WEB-INF\classes\*.java
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and there. -- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
