how to use jbossIDE to compile jsp

[jocular]

I installed the jbosside1.4. it's good editor. while I don't konw how to complie a jsp. Has that been implemented in version 1.4?

[millenium]

You have to enable JSP-Compilation in the Preferences for your Project. Be sure to set the root-directory correctly (e.g. DocRoot).
Mark

[davidakoontz]

And what does this preference do?

JSP's are compiled by the App Server dynamicly at load time.

Is this a "test" compile of some nature?

[mculpepper]

It allows you to pre-compile the JSPs so the container doesn't have to, thus saving you testing time :).

[dwatling]

This is in response to millenium's posting.

Currently, I am using JBoss 3.2.2. How would I determine the 'DocRoot' for my application? I've got an ear file (containing a war file) that deploys to "/jboss/server//tmp/deploy/tmpXXXX". I would assume the 'DocRoot' would be the directory under that directory. Is this correct? If yes, how would I be able to set this up inside Eclipse? The tmpXXXX directory pretty much changes its name every time I redeploy.

Thanks for any help.

-Dan Watling

[jocular]

Thanks,millenium
But I still can't pre-compile the jsp. I newed a J2EE 1.3 project. set the source folder as /src and set /bin for output folder. selected 'Check to enable the jsp complication' and set the Root folder bin. Then I put the jsp pages in the /src folder and complie the jsp. Nothing happens.

[millenium]

The root folder is the folder that contains your jsp-files. It is not Tomcat dependent or your bin directory (which should contain your class-files).
In my project I have a directory called docroot, this contains my jsp-Files.
Hopefully I could help...
Mark

[rjurkiewicz]

Hi Mark,

I can compile JSPs without included beans or application defined tags.

For some reason JSP compiler does not recognize files from build/classes foler.

sample error:

The value for the useBean class attribute com.XXX.SampleForm is invalid. error_login_XXX.jsp

QUESTION: How to add my classes to the JSP compiler path?

I tried to add jar file to the org.jboss.ide.eclipse.jdt.j2ee.jsp.core_1.4.0 plugin.xml - in the same way as it is added servlet-api.jar ().

Unfortunately it did not work.

Can you help me?

Thanks,
Robert

[millenium]

Well I dont use beans so at this point I can not help any more...sorry.
Mark

[letiemble]

Hi,

I think that there is a bug in the JSP compiler. Compiled classes from the project are not properly included in the compilation classpath. Further investigation is in progress.

Laurent.

[cdhough]

I can't get the compiler to work either. My JSP compile root folder is pointing to a directory that contains my JSPs. This folder is not a subdirectory of JBoss or Eclipse. Where are the resulting java files and classes supposed to get created?

Because of the inability to compile JSPs, I cannot get the JSP debugging working. Is JBoss 3.2.3 acceptable to compile? I believe that you need to have JBoss 3.2.4 (Tomcat 5) to do the debugging.

Thanks for any help.

- Charley

[cdhough]

I was able to get the JSP compiler to work. Originally my source was in a linked folder outside of the eclipse workspace. To get the JSP compile to work, I created a new directory called "docroot" under my project folder (C:\eclipse\workspace\MyProj\docroot) and put a jsp there. Now the jsp gets compilation warnings. Maybe you cannot have your JSPs in a linked folder for this feature to work.

- Charley

[p_saville1]

Any news on this bug being fixed?

[letiemble]

Hi,

File a bug on SourceForge (see the JBoss-IDE project page to see where), with all the stuff needed to reproduced and correct the bug.

Laurent.

[kevinhanna]

I have opened a bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1073515&group_id=22866&atid=376685