Re: tomcat 4 jsp compilation status?

[Don Smith <smithdc at UMDNJ dot EDU>]

A few questions,
1. From what i've read servlets seem to work, is this so, and if so how. 
I ask because it seems that if servlets work then jsps should be not to 
complicated as long as i can compile them to .class servlets
2. what version of gcj should i use to try and compile tomcat, is 3.0.4 
new enough or do i need the 3.1 branch
3. has any of this been tried with tomcat4 or just 3.3
4. does the connection to apache work? and if so what connector should i 
use? does mod_jk work as well

many thanks

don smith

Anthony Green wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:33, Don Smith wrote:
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>>What's the status of a gcj version of tomcat that can support jsps?
>>Is it possible, if not what needs to be done?
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>It's been a while since I looked at that (even though it would be really
>cool to get this working).
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>When I did start looking at it, I went about it the wrong way -- setting
>up tomcat to compile the jsp code to .so immediately.  Unfortunately,
>tomcat has many built in assumptions about the compiler generating
>.class files which it then manipulates (or just moves around, I think).
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>It makes better sense to do this in baby steps.  First get tomcat to
>compile jsp code to bytecode with 'gcj -C' and have everything work with
>the gcj interpreter.
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>Once that all works, perhaps we can figure out a good way to compile the
>.class files to .so.  I'm thinking this should be an extra step once the
>.class file is copied into the desired location by tomcat.
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>It would be great if somebody (like you!) could spend a little time
>trying to get this to work.  I'd be happy to help this person (like
>you!) along.
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>AG
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