Why not implement your own JSP base class that imports the classes/packages you need and have all your pages extend that new class. This would also be portable across implementations!
Kevin Jones Developmentor www.develop.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Anand Bashyam Narasimham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 December 2001 21:35 > To: 'Tomcat Developers List' > Subject: RE: Default classes loaded by Tocmat > > > I agree and that's why I still stick to Tomcat :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:34 PM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: RE: Default classes loaded by Tocmat > > > > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Anand Bashyam Narasimham wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:31:26 -0800 > > From: Anand Bashyam Narasimham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: 'Tomcat Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Default classes loaded by Tocmat > > > > Craig, > > > > I know Tomcat has always been a standards compliant implementation. > > But > will > > it be possible say for developers to have extensions where > instead of > > writing the import statements in a whole lot of JSPs we > make sure the > Class > > loader loads this as a extension to the list you've mentioned using > > some config file read at startup. > > > > I do agree that this make it a non-portable JSP, going against the > > spirit > of > > Java and J2EE but today everything written on J2EE though Java is > > almost > 60% > > not portable onto a different implementation :) > > > > Can this be done? > > > > Sure it can ... by you, modifying the source code yourself > and supporting it yourself. I'm not going to help you, > however, do something this crazy. > > It's one thing when vendors lock you in with non-portable > features. It's a different, and much sadder thing, to see > people willing to paint themselves into a corner like this :-(. > > > Anand > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>