Compiling JSPs via an Ant task

[rodneyzhamilton]

Hello, I am trying to build my web application for JBoss 4.0 with an Ant script.
I have the following task for compiling my JSPs:

<target name="compileJsp">
 <mkdir dir="${app.classroot.dir}/jsp"/>
 <jspc srcdir="${app.webroot.dir}"
 destdir="${app.classroot.dir}/jsp"
 classpathref="compile.classpath"
 verbose="9"
 package="com.afscn.database"
 compiler="??????">
 </jspc>
 </target>

I have the following paths included in my classpath:
* <pathelement path = "${env.JBOSS_HOME}/server/all/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/jasper-compiler.jar" />

* <pathelement path = "${env.JBOSS_HOME}/server/all/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/jasper-runtime.jar" />

What value belongs in the compiler attribute of the Ant jspc tag?

[mathewa]

Please do a search for "jspc" using the forum search and you'll find a few previous threads discussing ways of performing jsp precompilation... here is a clipping from one of them.

<jspc
 failonerror="false"
 srcdir=""
 destdir=""
 verbose="3"
 compiler="jasper41"
 webinc="">
 <classpath>
 <pathelement location="/WEB-INF/classes"/>
 <fileset dir="/WEB-INF/lib"><include name="*.jar"/></fileset>
 <path refid="jsp.precomp.classpath"/>
 </classpath>
 </jspc>

[mathewa]

oops forgot to answer your actual question... the jasper compiler goes in the compiler attribute.

see this link for more info on the how-to's of jasper:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/jasper-howto.html