I can vague remember issues about tomcat 5.5.x which came out with the jdt from eclipse which had no support for 1.5. I maybe also be completely wrong here. Are you talking about precompiling jsps before deployment, or production-compile during runtime? Have you tried the 5.5.16?
regards Leon On 4/4/06, CUCKSON, Nick, GBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a problem compiling jsp's against jdk1.5. I've searched the archives, > google, tomcat docs etc but found no help on my specific issue although I > can see anumber of people have had problems with generics support. > > I've changed to the Ant compiler and copied the ant.jar to common/lib, added > the compiler parameters to conf/web.xml to enable 1.5 compilation. > > I still get a message saying that generics are not supported and I should > change the -source 1.4 to -source 1.5. > > I've looked through the ant docs and this appears to be related to the javac > tag in build.xml, but I'm not sure where to put this tag in the context of a > tomcat installation. I've looked through the tomcat docs on jasper (how-to) > but I believe I've removed the dependency on japser so I dont think this is > relevant, although it does mention using the 'javac' argument with > catalina.sh. I've tried this with no success, but it's quite possible I > didn't configure this properly as I'm not sure where catalina.sh is called > from. I've looked through the .sh files but it's not clear. > > To sum up, I would like to know how to configure '-source 1.4' to '-source > 1.5' or am I barking up the wrong tree? > > thanks > > > *********************************************************************************** > The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered > Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. > Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority > > This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the > addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other > than the addressee, please return the message to the sender > by replying to it and then delete the message from your > computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The > Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for > changes made to this message after it was sent. > > Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the > transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to > ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this > message and any attachments will not adversely affect its > systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal > Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry > out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. > Visit our websites at: > http://www.rbos.com > http://www.rbsmarkets.com > *********************************************************************************** > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]