Jeremy, On 6/26/13 1:44 AM, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Nick Williams > <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote: >> >> Okay. One of many reasons I ask is that I still have it on my to-do >> to make some improvements on the JSP compiler to support things >> like 1) precompiling all JSPs on deploy and 2) a better Ant task. I >> don't know how much the EL changes might affect this JSP >> compilation (hopefully it's fairly decoupled), and I'd like that to >> not seriously hinder any effort to back-port my improvements to >> Tomcat 7. I'm wondering if this needs to move higher on my list and >> get in before the EL changes. Any insight? > > I have been thinking about improvements to Jasper as well around > better support for Servlet 3.0 concepts. One area would be decoupling > it from Tomcat, bootstrapping using an SCI as hinted in > ContextConfig. I'd also be interested in improving the Ant task as > well, such as support for pre-compiling a separate package that would > be treated as a web fragment (including web.xml-less pre-compilation, > generating a web-fragment.xml rather than a web.xml snippet or > potentially eliminating the XML entirely if the generated code can be > annotated with @WebServlet).
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50234 I tried some forays into this a few years ago, but got stuck in the confusion of how everything works together. I wanted to do something simple like get the web-app's spec-version number, but could not figure out how to do it. -chris
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