Hi James, I use the Jasper task to mainly reduce the time it takes to load a JSP page.
I only execute the Jasper task just before creating the WAR file for the production environment. On the production environtment that gets multiple visitors throughout the day, every time someone makes the *first* request to a particular JSP page - the container's compiler compiles it for the first time. This is fine if the application is small but if the app has too many JSP pages then, the container would compile each and every JSP page just once thus slowing the overall application response time especially if multiple users are accessing different parts of the web app at the same time. Pre-compiling the JSPs makes the web application response time much faster because the container only serves the class file. If you refer to the JSP 2.0 Final Release Specification (PDF) jsp-2_0-fr-spec.pdf on page 1-7 , it lists all the benefits of pre-compiling JSPs. I don't use the Jasper task for the development environment though, because one wouldn't mind a negligible wait for just one JSP page in the development environment and also because the Jasper task takes a very long time to complete, it is not suitable for a dev build but only for production build. -Regards Rashmi ----- Original Message ---- From: James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:12:40 AM Subject: Re: How to compile jsp files with ANT Why do you want to do this; e.g. is it part of a check to make sure that all JSP pages will compile? Typically, you'd get better results by using httpunit or a spider of sort sort to access every page and check that it doesn't come back with a 500 response. That way, you are using the deployment target container mechanism to compile the JSPs. James Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > Hi Lokesh, > > I'm assuming you want to pre-compile JSPs. You can use Jasper for that. > > Take a look at the Jasper ANT task here: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jasper-howto.html > > The pre-compilation process first converts all JSP files to .java files and > then compiles them into class files, it will also modify web.xml > to create a servlet mapping of every JSP class file. > > for example: > > <servlet> > > <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.web._005fterms.copyright_jsp</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.web._005fterms.copyright_jsp</servlet-class> > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.web._005fterms.copyright_jsp</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/web/_terms/copyright.jsp</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > I guess that's what you are looking for. > > -Rashmi > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Lokesh Jayaraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: user@ant.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:41:55 AM > Subject: How to compile jsp files with ANT > > > Dear, > > How to compile JSP files using ANT and Websphere Application Server 6.0 > and also use websphere's java compiler and libraries > Kindly help me to solve this pbm > by > Lokesh > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. > Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
