JSP in multiple places for webapplication

Question

I was wondering would it possible to configure a web application so that I could have one set of JSPs in the normal J2EE place under the project context and to have another set of JSPs in an entirely different place.
For example, the first location would be the standard J2EE location and underneath the project context.
The second location, would just be another location on my disk but it would be part of the same application.
Note, the reason why I want to do this is for ease of development. We have a base and then some customisation and I want to keep the absolutely separate during development.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Off hand, the only thing I can think of is to create two completely separate projects.
However, if you want to maintain a good development team and project, I suggest you keep it as one project and not try to hide anything from one group of developers. Instead, install CVS as your repository. It will track what changes were made and by who and you can roll back to a previous version of a JSP or java class if necessary. Your team should be briefed on the architecture you decide on (Spring, Sturts, etc), and basic good coding practices you want enforced.
Here are a few rules:
* nothing is to be checked into CVS that doesn't compile cleanly.
* nothing is to be checked into CVS that has any error or warning messages form your IDE outstanding.
* nothing is checked into CVS without the comment field of the commit dialog box being filled in.
* You have one build.xml file that eveyone uses to compile all code.
* All JSP pages are to be well formed xml (no dangling tags).
* all java classes and JSP pages are to be properly indented.
* all classes are to have javadoc describing what a class is for, and all functions are to have javadoc describing what the function does (not how it does it).