"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> Larry Isaacs wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have a need for a global way to have Jasper compile the
> > JSP servlet source with debug information. I would propose
> > defining a system property such as:
> >
> > jasper.compile.debug
> >
> > which if set to "true" would turn on the inclusion of debug
> > info. Any objections or alternative property names?
> >
>
> Wouldn't you really want this option at the per-web-app level, rather than
> global? While we were at it, you'd want similar options for turning
> optimization on and off, or (more generally) a way to set compiler options for a
> generic compiler.
Getting Tomcat to use the right compiler command to work with our
debugger has been a headache, both in preparing documentation and
in providing support. And Tomcat 3.1 and 3.2 have some differences
besides. I would love to see this configurable in server.xml both
globally and per context, and at a more abstract level than an
initialization parameter to org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.
Ideally, in fact, the configuration value would be the
compile command string, whose meaning everybody already
understands, for example: "javac", "jikes", "/usr/java/bin/javac -g",
or (in our case) "mjavac -g".
[It may be desirable to support a separate compiler type parameter
(which can usually be inferred from the compile command) to deal
with differences (e.g. classpath handling) between 1.1 javac,
1.2 javac, and jikes.]
Invoking javac in-process could be viewed as an under the hood
optimization (if the command is "javac" with no path, invoke
in-process) but it could be exposed explicitly.
We're about to release an inexpensive Tomcat edition of our debugger:
for now, in order to have the same instructions for Tomcat 3.1 and
3.2, and given that we don't want to embed Tomcat, I haven't thought
of anything better than recommending replacing tomcat.bat/sh with a
slightly modified one that we supply (or editing the java invocations
by hand if it's been customized).
Comments?
Louis Tribble
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