Jasper, JSPC, Ant and Precompiling JSP's

[Mark R. Diggory]

Hello,

I've done my best to review the archives to resolve my problem, but I've 
not found a solution there so I'm posting it.

I'm stuck back on Tomcat 4.1.24 (LE) and I'm encountering some issues 
with JSP Precompilation using Ant and JSPC. First let me outline my problem.

Most messages I've read to date focus on using JSP recompiling to turn 
the JSP into Servlets stored in a WAR file and require generating a 
fragment web.xml file and including it into your web.xml, I AM NOT 
trying to do this. I want my JSP's to get precompiled into the work 
directory of Tomcat and used from there, the exact same way that Tomcat 
does it. This way afterward, if the jsp is modified, tomcat can still 
recompile it.

I have the following jspc and javac tasks coded in my build.xml:

<mkdir dir="/var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/Foo"/>

<jspc srcdir="${deploy.home}"
      destdir="/var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/Foo"
      failonerror="false"
      compiler="jasper41">
    <classpath>
        <!-- snip -->
    </classpath>
    <exclude name="**/WEB-INF/**"/>
</jspc>
<javac destdir="/var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/Foo"
       optimize="off"
       debug="on" failonerror="false"
       srcdir="/var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/Foo"
       excludes="**/*.smap">
     <classpath>
        <!-- snip -->
     </classpath>
</javac>
Both tasks get completed successfully. I observe problems in the package 
names of the JSPC generated java files where the following is the case.

/var/tomcat/webapps/Foo/Bar/Bam.jsp results in the package name

package Bar;
...
which becomes a problem when I try to access this JSP included into 
another, I get the following error

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jsp/Bam_jsp (wrong name: 
Bar/Bam_jsp)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:502)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:431)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.load(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.getServlet(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.isOutDated(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.isOutDated(Unknown Source)
	...

I read somewhere that work had been done on my version (4.1.24) to 
eliminate a naming conflict problem. I assume this is why there are now 
package names on my _jsp.java files.  I find that when I let 
Tomcat/Jasper compile all my jsp's the java files *all* have the package 
name "org.apache.jsp" no matter what their directory. I assume that my 
compilation is conflicting with Tomcats because of the package naming 
differences.

So, I've tried adding the following attribute package="org.apache.jsp" 
to the jspc task, but this results in even more problems because all the 
package names now look like:

package org.apache.jsp.Bar;

and when they are compiled, they end up in a separate directory

/var/tomcat4/work/Foo/org/apache/jsp/Bar/Bam_jsp.java

Any ideas or solutions out there would be really helpful for me. I just 
want to have Tomcat start out using my precompiled jsp's instead of 
initially compiling them itself.

thanks
Mark Diggory
HMDC
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