Packaging jsp's in diffrent jar's!

Hello
I'm new to JSF and would like to start a project based on JSF 1.2. As my application invoves lots of business modules, need to package each module separately.Means backing bean,resourcebundle and jsp's will be packaged separately for each module.
Unfortunately system fails to load jsp if I put it in jar file (this jar is available in web-inf/lib) instead of web application war file directly.
Can anybody suggest me any solution on the same.
Thanks
Jobinesh

Thank you very much RaymondDeCampo for your quick response.
But I happened to see Tapestry supports this kind of requirement. There we can keep jsp's separately under different projects and war file would contain different artefacts(jars) cotaining jsps.
So I assume that somebody might have already faced this situation.
One work around would be to copy th jsp's to web app target folder as part of build process(ant/maven). But looking for more elegant solution.
Can anybody share their knowledge on the same
Thanks
Jobinesh

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I know that the module.io classes are in thejarfile.jar, but for some reason, now that I've put the files
in a new directory, the import is failing (simple import directive in thetestfile.jsp) And - yes - the .jar
file is there in the new subdirectory.
I am a newbie with jsp and just need to copy the files to new location and have them continue to work.
Do I have to recompile the .jar with some sort of adjustments? I poked around and I don't see any assumptions about the directory structure in the build. The behavior leads me to believe that the build is assuming something
about its location in the directory tree.
Hope this question is clear and I appreciate any direction you can provide to steer me where to look/modify
the necessary changes so I can move the .jsp's and .jar and not break them.

Thanks for the suggestions and insights. I have made some progress.
a context path of "/newdirectory/itworkshere" and a docBase of "./newdirectory/itworkshere" has resolved
the .jsp include problem.
However this seems a bit counter-intuitive to me considering that the default root context which is "" stands
at the appBase which in my case is C:\Site. Since the default does not explicitly refer to the "itworkshere" directory,
I'd expect that the newly added Context element would not have to either ---- BUT --- it does require that I include "itworkshere" in the context path and docBase (where I would expect ./newdirectory would have been sufficient since the default works that way) ... am I missing something?
Now I havethe next odd behavior - the Servlet which resides in "itworkshere\WEB-INF\lib" is not loading when I put the appropriate URL in --> /newdirectory/itworkshere/DataCrunchingServlet
I checked the web.xml file and it has the appropriate servlet-name and url-pattern (relative references)
Furthermore I did a test where I simply rename the original working instance directory and again --- the URL is failing to find the servlet!!! (and yes I stopped/started Tomcat) It is as if the servlet can only be found in the originally installed scenario.
I am extremely puzzled that the behaviors seem to indicate an assumption about the path structure, but the web.xml file is set up correctly.
Help help!!! and Thank you.l

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