OK, now it all makes sense. Thanks for opening my eyes. The comments in the
.java file say it ALL.
From: Konstantin Kolinko
To: Tomcat Users List
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Strange compilation dates for JSPS
2013/2/12 Ray Holme
2013/2/12 Ray Holme :
> While debugging a problem in Tomcat 7.0.35 (just upgraded), I noted OLD files
> in the work/Catalina/localhost/APP/org/apache/jsp directory.
>
> I thought I had cleaned things out to make sure all was rebuilt. So I
> manually stopped tomcat; manually cleaned the directory
