Do I have to register all *.jsp servlets in web.xml?

All,
I'm hoping someone in this forum can help me. I'm working on a report generator that uses JSP to generate a template which is fed to a formatter. What I want is to programatically call the JSP without having to add an entry for every single report to my web.xml. As you can imagine this doesn't scale well since every time a new type of report is added, someone has to go edit the web.xml.
The options I can think of:
1) Pre-compile the JSP's
2) Have a servlet mapping where *.jsp "does the right thing" for me
3) ?
Any suggestions? I'm not sure which is the best/practical approach. I really want to get away from having to modify the web.xml for every single type of report that I can generate.
Thanks!!
-Javier Delgadillo
Message was edited by:
javidel

Our web app is a web service where all requests get processed by an XFire servlet. So just adding the jsp on the disk somewhere won't do the trick. I have to register the jsp's.
Is there a better way to do this?
-Javier

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