Hi,
afaik there are two reasons for this one is versioning (for recompiling and
loading) and the other as a char-mangling mechanism to make weired filenames
propper class names.
For a detailed discussion search the archives for topics like:
"jsp-filenames should be less than 20 characters"
Ok, here's a naive question:
When Tomcat (3.2b8/Sun JDK 1.2.2_06) runs a JSP file for me, say, somefile.jsp,
I notice it
a) precompiles to somefile.java in the work directory for that context
b) compiles it to _0002fsomefile_0002ejspsomefile_0.class
c) renames that to