On 27/01/18 13:35, Alex O'Ree wrote: > Using tomcat 8.5... > > I have a web app that still uses jsp's and i'm looking into a few options > to (a) aid development and (b) reduce or eliminate the need for the JDK in > a production setup and just run a JRE.
Tomcat doesn't need the JDK and hasn't for a good number of years. Tomcat includes the Eclipse compiler and uses that to compile JSPs by default. > (a) Making development easier. My project is maven based and I'd like to > run some kind of JSP precompile at build time to ensure that all jsp files > can be compiled (no typos). I've tried a bunch of examples from SO but > haven't found anything that functionally works. If you don't show us a) what you tried and b) what error message you got we can't help you and point you in the right direction. > (b) Along the same lines, if the solution to question a can inject the > precompiled jsp files into the WAR, and that is deployed to tomcat, my > assumption is that the JDK and thus javac would not be necessary at > runtime. Is this an accurate statement or do other elements within tomcat > require the JDK? This is assuming that all JSP's deployed to tomcat are > precompiled somehow. The JDK is not necessary to run any currently supported version of Tomcat. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
