Packaging JSP files.

Question

Hi all.
Just a quick question that I can't find an answer to.
Is it possible to put jsp files into packages? For example, say I want to have two JSPs with the same name, can I do something like:
com.somepackage.Login.jsp
and
com.someotherpackage.Login.jsp
rather than just putting them all in the webapps/myapp directory?
And if so, how do I configure Tomcat, and how do I reference each one?
Many thanks

Answer 1

Hi all.
Just a quick question that I can't find an answer
to.
Is it possible to put jsp files into packages? For
example, say I want to have two JSPs with the same
name, can I do something like:
com.somepackage.Login.jsp
and
com.someotherpackage.Login.jsp AFAIK, no.
rather than just putting them all in the
webapps/myapp directory?
You could ofcourse put them in sub-directories under myapp and not necessarily directly under myapp. So if you put your jsps under a folder
, say, jsp which in turn is under the root folder myapp, they should be
accessed as /jsp/filename.jsp. You could logically partition the jsps
into sub-folders and say, you have folders like foo and bar inside your
jsp folder, then the jsps would be accessed as /jsp/foo/filename.jsp and /jsp/bar/filename.jspAlternatively you could define a url for each jsp in your web.xml, just like
how you do for servlets. For this use the <jsp-file> tag in place of
<servlet-class> in your web.xml.
By doing so, you register a JSP as a servlet using the <servlet> tag. In this example a URL containing /main will invoke myJSPfile.jsp:
<servlet>
     <servlet-name>myFoo</servlet-name>
     <jsp-file>myJSPfile.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>myFoo</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>/main</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>Registering a JSP in this manner allows you to specify the load order, initialization parameters, and security roles for a JSP, just as you would for a servlet.
cheers,
ram.
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Many thanks