Including external XML into the web.xml descriptor

[darthjoe]

Hi all,
I am pre-compiling my jsp's and outputting the servlet/url mappings to a file jsp_inc.xml

I want to include that file in my web.xml file for my war project. If I cut an paste
the jsp_inc.xml text into my web.xml it works fine. I was trying to use entities to
include the file and not have to do the cut and paste. All the examples I have
seen suggest the below entry should work, but it doesn't appear to. Any ideas?
Are there any means to get debug output for the xml parser? By the way,
I am using jboss 3.2.x

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

-Joe

################## WEB.XML FILE ############################
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd"
[
ENTITY jspinc SYSTEM "jsp_inc.xml"
]>

<web-app>
<display-name>Struts Example Application</display-name>

<!-- Action Servlet Configuration -->

<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>


&jspinc;
################################
.... Rest of xml file snipped


###########JSP_INC.XML TEXT BELOW ##################
<!--
Automatically created by Tomcat JspC.
Place this fragement in the web.xml before all icon, display-name,
description, distributable, and context-param elements.
-->

<servlet-name>em.jsp.genres.genre_display_jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>em.jsp.genres.genre_display_jsp</servlet-class>



<servlet-name>em.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>em.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-class>


<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>em.jsp.genres.genre_display_jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/genres/genre_display.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>em.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!--
All session-config, mime-mapping, welcome-file-list, error-page, taglib,
resource-ref, security-constraint, login-config, security-role,
env-entry, and ejb-ref elements should follow this fragment.
-->

[darthjoe]

Well I figured it out by using the file:// and using a full path

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd"
[
ENTITY jspinc SYSTEM "file:///usr/local/emusic_dev/proto/emusic_app/emusic.war/WEB-INF/jsp_inc.xml"
]>

The path appears to be evaluated relative to the bin/run.sh instead of relative to the emusic.war
This becomes a problem if I don't know the full path to the file and want a relative uri. Anyone know any tricks to make this work? It seems like its a bug in the parser to evaluate the uri the way it is. Or maybe I am missing something simple??

Thanks,

-Joe