I am actually trying to execute a JSP file (dynamically) that is located on
the file system (outside of the webapp) at runtime.
The problem with using a JSP include is you can not execute JSP files
outside of the web-app let alone on the local file system of the server.
According to Martin my pro
The "c:import" tag is like the JSP include "action", as opposed to the
JSP include "directive". It's important to understand the difference
between these two. The latter includes at compile time, and the former
includes at run time. In other words, the include action executes the
specified resou