Following up to my own post in case anyone else has the same problem:
I looked at the source code for the precompiler in the Tomcat/Jasper source
distribution. Specifically, I looked at the JspC code that's used by Ant's jspc task.
Although the extensions instance variable is defined as a Vect
JSP fragment files (*.jspf) don't seem to be precompilable. I've set up a
"precompile" target in my Ant build script. It invokes jspc which works fine for .jsp
files. The .jsp files get compiled, war'red, and run within JBoss 3.0.8. However,
the jspf files DO NOT get compiled by the jspc tas