Question

I have deployed our War under Tomcat 6.0 into Linux server. In that Linux machine, we don’t have permissions to open a browser.

Is it possible to execute a JSP from command line?

Answer 1

You can use among others wget (<– click the link to see the manual):

wget http://localhost:8080/context/page.jsp

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Unrelated to the concrete problem, I however wonder how that’s useful. If you’re for example abusing a JSP to do some webapp initialization, then you should instead have done it in a ServletContextListener (<– click the link to see the Javadoc).

See also:

• Using special auto start servlet to initialize on startup and share application data (<– click the link to see an example)
• How do I load a java class (not a servlet) when the tomcat server starts (<– link to another example)