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gowthaman
gowthaman

Reputation: 1003

How to fix JSP compiler warning: one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs?

When starting the application or compiling JSP via ant, Tomcat 7 Jasper complains about superfluous or misplaced JAR file. I got below message 

**compile-jsp:**
   [jasper] Jul 31, 2012 7:15:15 PM org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache tldScanJar
   [jasper] INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

how to Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time in tomcat?

how to enable better output?

Upvotes: 64

Views: 202448

Answers (10)

Alex R
Alex R

Reputation: 11881

If the extra entries in the log bother you but an extra second of start-up time doesn't, just add this to your logging.properties and forget about it:

org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.level = WARNING

Upvotes: 0

Guno
Guno

Reputation: 997

For Tomcat 8, I had to add the following line to tomcat/conf/logging.properties for the jars scanned by Tomcat to show up in the logs:

org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.level = FINE

Upvotes: 45

HopeKing
HopeKing

Reputation: 3503

The warning comes up because Tomcat scans all Jars for TLDs (Tagging Library Definitions).

Step1: To see which JARs are throwing up this warning, insert he following line to tomcat/conf/logging.properties 

org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.level = FINE

Now you should be able to see warnings with a detail of which JARs are causing the intial warning

Step2 Since skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time, we will skip un-needed JARS in the catalina.properties file. You have two options here -

  1. List all the JARs under the tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip. But this can get cumbersome if you have a lot jars or if the jars keep changing.
  2. Alternatively, Insert tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip=* to skip all the jars

You should now not see the above warnings and if you have a considerably large application, it should save you significant time in deploying an application.

Note: Tested in Tomcat8

Upvotes: 8

Alexey Nikitenko
Alexey Nikitenko

Reputation: 2127

Tomcat 8.5. Inside catalina.properties, located in the /conf directory set:

tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip=\*.jar

Or go into context.xml, located in Tomcat's /conf directory and add:

<JarScanner scanClassPath="false"/>

Upvotes: 52

Elcin ABD
Elcin ABD

Reputation: 127

For Tomcat 8, I had to add the following line to catalina.properties for preventing jars scanned by Tomcat:

tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip=jsp-api.jar,servlet-api.jar

Upvotes: 4

gkar
gkar

Reputation: 31

None of the above worked for me (tomcat 7.0.62)... As Sensei_Shoh notes see the class above the message and add this to logging.properties. My logs were:

Jan 18, 2016 8:44:21 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig execute
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

so I added

org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.level = FINE

in conf/logging.properties

After that I got so many "offending" files that I did not bother skipping them (and also reverted to normal logging...)

Upvotes: 3

Sensei_Shoh
Sensei_Shoh

Reputation: 709

The error message states which logger it is using, so set that logger .level:

[jasper] Jul 31, 2012 7:15:15 PM org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache tldScanJar

So the logger is org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache. In your logging.properties file, add this line:

org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache.level = FINE

Upvotes: 1

Joseph Lust
Joseph Lust

Reputation: 19985

If it helps anyone, I just appended the contents of the below output file to the existing org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.jarsToSkip= entry.

Note that /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out is the location of your tomcat log.

egrep "No TLD files were found in \[file:[^\]+\]" /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out -o | egrep "[^]/]+.jar" -o | sort | uniq | sed -e 's/.jar/.jar,\\/g' > skips.txt

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 11

user3585459
user3585459

Reputation: 41

Uncomment this line (in /conf/logging.properties)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache.level = FINE

Work's for me in tomcat 7.0.53!

Upvotes: 4

skiabox
skiabox

Reputation: 3507

The above solution did not work for me. Instead I simply removed the hash(#) from the last line of the logging.properties file, to make it work.

# To see debug messages in TldLocationsCache, uncomment the following line:
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache.level = FINE

The next step is to add the jars that Tomcat 7 is looking for in catalina.properties files just after the following line 

org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.jarsToSkip=

Upvotes: 15

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