Extraneous new lines in HTML output of JSP page

Question

Hi
I have bunch of JSP fragments that I use while creating a composite view..Each one of them has server side comments that I use to document their functionality...
However when final JSP is generated and when I look at the HTML source (which I often need to) it is "chunked" - there is a about 50 blank lines inserted at the top of the page and then on each fragment about 10 or more blank lines.... Initially, I thought that the server side comments created new lines but after removing the comments and redeploying the problem still persists......
Is there a way to prevent these new lines from being generated? Especially the ones at the start of the document....
Thanks

Answer 1

That is not the only way. In your server's default web.xml, there should be a servlet definition for JSPs, something like this:
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>fork</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>There is a possible init-param called trimSpaces which will do the job:
        <init-param>
            <param-name>trimSpaces</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>This may be only a Tomcat 5 feature, however.