Precompile jsps via ant

Question

I have a development project that has been setup to use JDeveloper 10.1.3.5.0 to create and EAR for deployment. The EAR is comprised of three sub applications - appData, appEjb, appWeb. Each subapplication has its own resource to deploy in JDeveloper. The appWeb has an additional resource defined in JDeveloper to deploy the EAR.
I am attempting to move the build process out of JDeveloper and into ant in order to integrate the application with an automated build management framework.
I have been successful in creating an ant build.xml to pull the code from source control, compile the three subapplications, jar the appData, and jar the appEjb. The issue I am having is precompiling the jsp files in the appWeb.
The JDeveloper resource for appWeb.deploy precompiles all the jsps and packages the jsp class files along with all the other appWeb content as part of the appWeb.war.
I thought JDeveloper was utilizing an internal J2EE standalone OC4J. I created a classpath and taskdef as follows
<path id="ojspc.classpath">
<fileset dir="jdevstudio">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
<pathelement location="${env.JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar" />
<pathelement location="${outDir}/appData"/>
<pathelement location="${outDir}/appWeb"/>
<pathelement location="${outDir}/appEjb"/>
</path>
<taskdef name="ojspc" classpathref="ojspc.classpath" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.jsp.OjspC" />
My original attempts had a much more constrained classpath definition (using the classpath found in the manifest file within j2ee\home\ojspc.jar); however, ant is unable to find the OjspC class and thus I expanded the classpath to include all jar files.
After reading through blogs, forums, and documentation, I am unable to figure out how to define a task within ant to precompile the jsps in my project which mirrors the work being done via the JDeveloper deploy resource. Does anyone know the actual class to use for precompiling the jsps?
Any help is greatly apprciated,
/dclink

Answer 1

GR wrote:
          > Is there any ant task for precompiling jsp provided by weblogic 8.1.2?
          > (Ant's wljspc doesnt work with 8.1.2).
          Have you tired a regular java task that calls the class weblogic.jspc?
          A little more direct but I imagine it would work
          ~Ryan