Recompilation and ant build file

Question

Hi, all
I already set precompile to false in weblogic.xml. However, when we deploy, the JSPs are recompiled again claiming that they are stale. And we are using workshop ant build file. And I found out that the timestamps of compiled classes of JSPs are elder than JSP because the ant build copies the classes first to staging directory. See the following;
<for-each-resource-path>
<echo level="info" message=".resource.path= ${.resource.path}"/>
<if>
<available file="${.resource.path}"/>
<then>
<if>
<isfile path="${.resource.path}"/>
<then>
<copy file="${.resource.path}" tofile="${staging.dir}/${.resource.prefix}"/>
</then>
<else>
<copy todir="${staging.dir}/${.resource.prefix}">
<fileset dir="${.resource.path}" includes="${.resource.include}" excludes="${.resource.exclude}"/>
</copy>
</else>
</if>
</then>
</if>
</for-each-resource-path>
Is there any work-around to solve this? I don't want recompilation to occur again during deployment. Thanks in advance.
Stephen

Answer 1

First of all, why exactly do you care if it recompiles all the JSPs on deployment (precompile=true), even if it doesn't need to? This isn't a user experience problem, as all the pages would be compiled by the time a user referenced the page.
If you want to avoid compiling JSPs on deployment, then have your build process compile the JSPs, include the generated servlet classes, and exclude the JSPs the generated classes were based on.