tomcat config for development -- any way to recompile jsp every time?

[xor]

I am writing jsp pages and serving them with tomcat, I trying to apply the fusebox methodology (I'm used to using it with coldfusion, and I'm trying to adapt it to jsp), so I've got a switch statement in my index.jsp page which looks at a url variable and decides which content page to load. The problem is that if I make changes to a content page I am working on I have found that I must also make a change to the index.jsp page and save that in order to get tomcat to recompile the jsp page that I am really working on. Is there anyway to get tomcat to recompile pages every time you reload a page in the browser? It would make my development cycle so much easier.

TIA,
Donna

 

[dendenners]

maybe this is overkill for what you want, but you could write a jsp compiler class that takes in a jsp page name as a command line argument, converts it to a url the server can understand and compiles it.
For example, if your jsps are under the /test firectory under the webserver's jsp default directory, and your webserver is listening on port 7001, then do the following:

String jspName="test.jsp";
String hostURL = "

http://localhost:7001";

String jspDir = "/test/";
String urlString = hostURL + jspDir + jspName;
URL url = new URL(urlString);
URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
uc.getInputStream();

This should compile the /test/test.jsp file under the webserver's default jsp path ( assuming of course the server is up and running). You could of course use this code to compile all your jsps by writing a for loop and passing them in one by one. BTW the above code won't work as is, there are exceptions to catch etc.