Terence, In addition to my previous reply to Chris, most of our JSPs are not SUPPOSED to be accessed as web pages, although some are meant to be. Also, unfortunately, all of them ARE accessible as web pages due to bad design (something I intend to change).
Nick -----Original Message----- From: Terence M. Bandoian [mailto:tere...@tmbsw.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:46 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Precompile JSPs, avoid thousands of servlets? On 1:59 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > We maintain a very large application, with somewhere around 2,000 JSP > files (in addition to ~250,000 lines of pure Java). We have decided it > is about time we ship our application with precompiled JSP files. > > > > The Ant tasks from Tomcat to support this effort have been extremely > helpful, and I have no serious complaints about them. We can even use > our own package name for the JSPs. Great! > > > > Our first challenge is that we support Tomcat, GlassFish, WebLogic and > WebSphere, so our JSPs have to be precompiled in such a way that they > will run in any of those web containers. We’ll overcome that challenge > I’m sure; if we have to include some extra libraries, we’ll make it work. > > > > Our second challenge is the 11,500-line web.xml file that results > from this process. I understand that Ant does a lot of the hard work > for me, but a web.xml file this large bothers me, even if I don’t have > to look at it during every day development. What’s more, we’re > actually trying to *move > away* from having a web.xml file (of any real substance) and using new > Servlet 3.0 features. > > > > I could swear I saw an example a while ago (while searching Google, of > course) of a web.xml file with a single servlet that responded to > requests for ALL JSPs that had be precompiled, but I can’t find it > anywhere anymore. > I’m sure I *could* write my own servlet to accomplish this, but I’d > sure like to use something existing that already has common usage. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > At least web.xml is auto-generated. Are all of the JSPs accessible as web pages? What I've seen uses annotations and then you have to live with the startup time. -Terence Bandoian P.S. Sorry about the direct e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
