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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43702 Summary: Class Files Have Unnecessarily Long Names when Using SimpleTags Product: Tomcat 5 Version: 5.5.24 Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Jasper AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been using Tomcat 5.5.7 (though I have checked this on the latest 5.5 and 6.0 releases too) and had some problems with very long class file names when using the SimpleTag interface for a custom tag in a JSP document (the XML representation). >From my reading of the code in Jasper, and my observation of the files on my disk, if I have a JSP file "WebContent/mypages/MyPage.jspx", then a class file named "work/org/apache/jsp/mypages/MyPage_jspx.class" will be generated by Jasper. If I use the SimpleTag interface for one of my custom tags on that JSP, a "helper" class (an inner class of the "MyPage_jspx" class) is also generated. The naming convention appends "Helper" to the "outer" class name to create the inner class name resulting in a class file named "work/org/apache/jsp/mypages/MyPage_jspx$MyPage_jspxHelper.class". As there is only one "helper" class required, it could just be named "Helper", instead of "MyPage_jspxHelper". The "outer" class provides a namespace that is duplicated unnecessarily in the name of the inner class. Another alternative would be to generate this as an independent class instead of an inner class (they could reside in the same source file). This may not seem to be a particularly important issue, but it becomes a real problem if the name of the JSP is very long. We generate JSP files from other sources that often use very long names (the names are chosen by our customers, so we do not have a lot of control over how long they can get). We have recently started to use the SimpleTag interface to try to reduce the size of the Java classes generated by Jasper (the generated code is more compact, as there is less code needed to handle return values, etc.) However, we quickly found that if a developer's project directory was deeply nested on the file system (i.e., the path to the "work" directory) and/or the JSPs had long names (some names were as long as 96 characters) that the filesystem path length limit on Windows was exceeded and we got "class not found" errors from Tomcat at run-time for classes that clearly existed on the filesystem. I have seen these errors before in other circumstances and they are caused when the path length limit is exceeded. A trivial change to the Jasper code generator to avoid replicating the name of the "outer" class in the name of the inner "helper" class would go a long way to alleviating this problem. I cannot think of any reason why this would not be a useful improvement to Jasper. It is a one line change to the constructor of the "org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator" class where the FragmentHelperClass object is created (and probably in some other area where references to this helper are generated into the servlet code). Other improvements to the compactness of the generated code could also be made by more extensive use of "import" statements, but that would probably not have any effect on the size of the ".class" file after compilation (or would it?). For our part, we have had to stop using the SimpleTag interface for our custom tags, and have to start investigating a way of truncating long JSP file names to avoid being caught out by Jasper's verbosity and the Windows path length limit. Should I report this issues separately against Tomcat 6? -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
