BUG?! in jspc while precompiling jsp pages

Question

Hi everybody out there,
          Sorry for posting to two groups but I'n not sure which is the right one.
          I think I found a BUG in the JSP Compiler.
          Here is my situation:
          I want to precompile my jsp files in my web-app.
          For this I put a line to my makefile which looks like this:
          find webappdir -name "*.jsp" | xargs java weblogic.jspc -d
          webappdir/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_ShowCase/
          I have to use "find" because there are a lot of dirs which I don't want to
          write explicitly to the makefile.
          The usual behaviour should be a new dir: jsp_servlet And under this all the
          files in my web-app
          and the subdirs should begin with an underscore.
          The problem is, that the generated structure is jsp_servlet/__46_ and from
          there on the expected structure.
          So I tried without find because I suspected the error in the find/xargs
          construct.
          "find" prints out a list like ./dir/name.jsp
          I figured out that when I start jspc manually in the following two ways:
          java weblogic.jspc -d webappdir/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_ShowCase/ dir/name.jsp
          java weblogic.jspc -d webappdir/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_ShowCase/ ./dir/name.jsp
          what should be the very same.
          That the result is different.
          In the first case I get jsp_servlet/_dir/_name.class
          And in the latter jsp_servlet/__46_/_dir/_name.class
          Where does this __46_ come from? It's obviously an error in the jsp compiler
          because its manually reproducable.
          Thanks in advance
          Elmar
          

Answer 1

BTW one workaround is to use cut from the GNU textutils with cut -c 3-
          This command would then be
          > find webappdir -name "*.jsp" | xargs java weblogic.jspc -d
          > webappdir/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_ShowCase/
          find webappdir -name "*.jsp" | cut -c 3- | xargs java weblogic.jspc -d
          webappdir/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_ShowCase/