Hiding JSP code during deploynment in tomcat5

Question

I have developed a JSP application using JSP pages,Servlets and JavaBeans and i would reaaly like to hide my JSP code.
Since JSP pages have to be converted to Java Sources and then to classes, is there a way i can deploy only the class files sumped by my tomcat? Please assist because i am desperate with this solution

Answer 1

Hi
This thing can be done. Let me give u an example
suppost i have a context named Test in webapps directory. it contains
a jsp named hello.jsp.Now start Tomcat, access the hello.jsp file
eg:
http://localhost:8080/Test/hello.jsp
Now it will compile the jsp and the servlet version of the jsp will be created in work\Catalina\localhost\Test\ . inside this directory the servlet of the corresponding JSP gets created with following package
org.apache.jsp.hello_jsp.java
inside org/apache/jsp directory u will find the hello_jsp.java and hello_jsp.class File.We will require only class file.Delete the .java file
make a jar of org.apache.jsp.hello_jsp say test.jar
Now copy test.jar to webapps/Test/web-inf/lib
edit the web.xml like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">
<servlet>
     <servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.hello_jsp</servlet-class>     
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>/hello.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>now delete the hello.jsp start Tomcat and try acess the jsp
Hope everything will work fine...
regards
Suvendu