jsp compilation

JSP compilation causes the compilation of JSP files before they are first accessed on a live server.

JspPrecompileListener

Unless explicitly compiled ahead of time, JSP files are compiled the first time they are accessed. On large production sites, or in situations involving complicated JSP files, compilation may cause unacceptable delays to users first accessing the JSP page.

Resin provides a JspPrecompileListener that causes jsp to be compiled when the web application starts. As an alternative, Resin also provides a JspCompiler that is used to explicitly compile jsp files before they are accessed for the first time.

com.caucho.jsp.JspPrecompileListener is a ServletContextListener that compiles jsp files when the web-app starts. It is activated using the <listener> Servlet configuration tag in web.xml.

The following configuration causes Resin to compile all files in the web-app that have an extension of .jsp or .jspx when the application first starts.

WEB-INF/web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.caucho.jsp.JspPrecompileListener</listener-class>
    <init>
      <extension>jsp</extension>
      <extension>jspx</extension>
    </init>
  </listener>
</web-app>

It can also be configured in resin.xml to apply to all web-app's.

resin.xml

<web-app-default>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.caucho.jsp.JspPrecompileListener</listener-class>
    <init>
      <extension>jsp</extension>
      <extension>jspx</extension>
      <extension>xtp</extension>
    </init>
  </listener>
</web-app-default>

You can also use a fileset for more control over which jsp are precompiled:

resin.xml

<web-app>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.caucho.jsp.JspPrecompileListener</listener-class>
    <init>
      <fileset>
        <include>**/*.jsp</include>
        <exclude>/a.jsp</exclude>
        <exclude>/foo/c.jsp</exclude>
      </fileset>
    </init>
  </listener>
</web-app>

The first line includes all jsp's, it's the same as specifying jsp. The following lines exclude specific jsp.

JspCompiler

com.caucho.jsp.JspCompiler is used to compile JSP.

class-dir	the destination class directory	the system work path
app-dir	the root directory of an application to compile	required
xml	if true then XML is the default parser	false
prelude	add a prelude include	none
coda	add a coda include	none
tag	classname specifying a tag to compile	none

Command line usage of JspCompile

Command line usage accepts arguments that correspond to the parameters available to the parameters of the JspCompiler class.

command line

unix> java com.caucho.jsp.JspCompiler -app-dir "/opt/www/foo" test/foo.jsp

com.caucho.jsp.JspCompiler accepts a -conf argument, which points to a xml configuration file:

compile-app.xml

  
<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">
  <app-dir>/opt/www/webapps/foo</app-dir>
  <xml>true</xml>
</web-app>

command line with compile-app.xml conf file

unix> java com.caucho.jsp.JspCompiler -conf /opt/resin/compile-app.xml" test/foo.jsp