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Jetty Jspc Maven Plugin
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## 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.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>9.4.32.v20200930</version>
       <executions>
         <execution>
           <id>jspc</id>
           <goals>
             <goal>jspc</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
           </configuration>
         </execution>
       </executions>
     </plugin>

The configurable parameters are as follows:

webXmlFragment

  Default value: `$\{project.basedir}/target/webfrag.xml`

  File into which to generate the servlet declarations. Will be merged with an existing `web.xml`.

webAppSourceDirectory

  Default value: `$\{project.basedir}/src/main/webapp`

  Root of resources directory where jsps, tags etc are located.

webXml

  Default value: `$\{project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml`

  The web.xml file to use to merge with the generated fragments.

includes

  Default value: `**\/*.jsp, **\/*.jspx`

  The comma separated list of patterns for file extensions to be processed.

excludes

  Default value: `**\/.svn\/**`

  The comma separated list of patterns for file extensions to be skipped.

classesDirectory

  Default value: `$\{project.build.outputDirectory}`

  Location of classes for the webapp.

generatedClasses

  Default value: `$\{project.build.outputDirectory}`

  Location to put the generated classes for the jsps.

insertionMarker

  Default value: none

  A marker string in the src `web.xml` file which indicates where to merge in the generated web.xml fragment. Note that the marker string will NOT be preserved during the insertion. Can be left blank, in which case the generated fragment is inserted just before the line containing `</web-app>`.

useProvidedScope

  Default value: false

  If true, jars of dependencies marked with <scope>provided</scope> will be placed on the compilation classpath.

mergeFragment

  Default value: true

  Whether or not to merge the generated fragment file with the source web.xml. The merged file will go into the same directory as the webXmlFragment.

keepSources

  Default value: false

  If true, the generated .java files are not deleted at the end of processing.

sourceVersion
  Introduced in Jetty 9.3.6. Java version of jsp source files. Defaults to 1.7.
targetVersion
  Introduced in Jetty 9.3.6. Java version of class files generated from jsps. Defaults to 1.7.
tldJarNamePatterns

  Default value: `.*taglibs[^/]*\.jar|.*jstl-impl[^/]*\.jar$`

  Patterns of jars on the system (ie container) path that contain tlds. Use | to separate each pattern.

jspc

  Default value: the `org.apache.jasper.JspC` instance being configured.

  The JspC class actually performs the pre-compilation. All setters on the JspC class are available. You can download the javadoc here.

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>${project.basedir}/target/web.xml</webXml>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>

### Precompiling only for Production Build

As compiling jsps is usually done during preparation for a production release and not usually done during development, it is more convenient to put the plugin setup inside a <profile> which which can be deliberately invoked during prep for production.

For example, the following profile will only be invoked if the flag `-Dprod` is present on the run line:

    <profiles>
        <profile>
          <id>prod</id>
          <activation>
            <property><name>prod</name></property>
          </activation>
          <build>
          <plugins>
            <plugin>
              <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
              <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>9.4.32.v20200930</version>
              <!-- put your configuration in here -->
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
              <!-- put your configuration in here -->
            </plugin>
          </plugins>
          </build>
        </profile>
      </profiles>

The following invocation would cause your code to be compiled, the jsps to be compiled, the <servlet> and <servlet-mapping>s inserted in the `web.xml` and your webapp assembled into a war:

    $ mvn -Dprod package

### Precompiling Jsps with Overlaid Wars

Precompiling jsps with an overlaid war requires a bit more configuration. This is because you need to separate the steps of unpacking the overlaid war and then repacking the final target war so the jetty-jspc-maven-plugin has the opportunity to access the overlaid resources.

In the example we’ll show, we will use an overlaid war. The overlaid war will provide the `web.xml` file but the jsps will be in `src/main/webapp` (i.e. part of the project that uses the overlay). We will unpack the overlaid war file, compile the jsps and merge their servlet definitions into the extracted `web.xml`, then pack everything into a war.

Here’s an example configuration of the war plugin that separate those phases into an unpack phase, and then a packing phase:

    <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>unpack</id>
            <goals><goal>exploded</goal></goals>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <configuration>
              <webappDirectory>target/foo</webappDirectory>
              <overlays>
                <overlay />
                <overlay>
                  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                  <artifactId>test-jetty-webapp</artifactId>
                </overlay>
              </overlays>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>pack</id>
            <goals><goal>war</goal></goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
              <warSourceDirectory>target/foo</warSourceDirectory>
              <webXml>target/web.xml</webXml>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>

Now you also need to configure the `jetty-jspc-maven-plugin` so that it can use the web.xml that was extracted by the war unpacking and merge in the generated definitions of the servlets. This is in `target/foo/WEB-INF/web.xml`. Using the default settings, the `web.xml` merged with the jsp servlet definitions will be put into `target/web.xml`.

    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
         <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>9.4.32.v20200930</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>jspc</id>
             <goals>
               <goal>jspc</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
                <webXml>target/foo/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
                <includes>**/*.foo</includes>
                <excludes>**/*.fff</excludes>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>

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