Jetty/Feature/Jetty Jspc Maven Plugin

Jetty Jspc Maven Plugin

This plugin will help you pre-compile your jsps and works in conjunction with the maven war plugin to put them inside an assembled war.

Configuration

Here's the basic setup required to put the jspc plugin into your build:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
   <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>7.0.0</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>jspc</id>
       <goals>
         <goal>jspc</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

Configurable Parameters

The configurable parameters are

Parameter Name	Default Value	Meaning
webXmlFragment	"${basedir}/target/webfrag.xml"	File into which to generate the servlet declarations. Will be merged with an existing web.xml.
packageRoot	"jsp"	Default root package name for all generated classes.
webAppSourceDirectory	"${basedir}/src/main/webapp"	Root of resources directory where jsps, tags etc are located.
webXml	"${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml"	The web.xml file to use to merge with the generated fragments.
includes	"**\/*.jsp, **\/*.jspx"	The comma separated list of patterns for file extensions to be processed.
excludes	"**\/.svn\/**"	The comma separated list of patterns for file extensions to be skipped.
classesDirectory	"${project.build.outputDirectory}"	Location of classes for the webapp.
generatedClasses	"${project.build.outputDirectory}"	Location to put the generated classes for the jsps.
keepSources	false	Controls whether or not .java files generated during compilation will be preserved.
validateXml	false	x
suppressSmap	true	Whether or not to generate JSR45 compliant debug info.
ignoreJspFragmentErrors	false	x
schemaResourcePrefix		x
insertionMarker		x
verbose	false	x
mergeFragment	true	x

Taking all the default settings, here's how to configure the war plugin to use the generated web.xml that includes all of the jsp servlet declarations:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <webXml>${basedir}/target/web.xml</webXml>
  </configuration>
</plugin>