[appengine-java] Re: JSP errors in hosted mode

2009-09-16 Thread Keith Platfoot
Hi Andy, Actually, both the JSP compiler (Jasper) and javac process your JSPs. Jasper's compiler is really more of a pre-processor than an actual compiler: it just converts a JSP into source code for a Java servlet, which javac then compiles into Java bytecode. The problem comes when the Java ser

[appengine-java] Re: JSP errors in hosted mode

2009-09-16 Thread andy
Thanks Keith. I somewhat understand your point. Since you say the JSP compiler would give the desired information is there a way to configure the hosted mode to use the JSP compiler instead of javac? From the IRC chat today it was suggested that I add an issue. The issue I added was htt

[appengine-java] Re: JSP errors in hosted mode

2009-09-16 Thread Keith Platfoot
Hi Andy, At this point, no. For JSP errors generated by javac, the error will refer to locations inside the generated servlet class, instead of inside the JSP file it came from. Errors from the JSP compiler, on the other hand, *will*generally refer to the actual JSP file/line that caused the erro