Question

I am starting a project that will have many “files” (like a web servers .html or jsp files). Each of these files will have “JSP” embedded in the files, for example;

Hello <%=”John Doe” %>

I would then like to programatically send this file through a “JSP Compiler” and then get the output file.

I have looked at the Tomcats JSPServlet and came to a dead end as it does not seem possible to get to the Servlet object from code. I have also downloaded the Apache Jasper code which is in Tomcat to figure out what JSPServlet is doing but this seems like the long route.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

I know JSP is web orientated but that will work for me.

Answer 1

To answer my own question 🙂

I created classes that implement tomcat’s Connector interface, which allowed me to use everything that Tomcat offers but with my own entry point.