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Brodie
Brodie

Reputation: 605

How jasper the jsp engine, compile JSP to servlet?

is Jasper a Java compiler itself?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 10479

Answers (1)

kgiannakakis
kgiannakakis

Reputation: 104198

Jasper is Tomcat's JSP engine, which implements the JSP specification. It compiles JSP files to Java code. Here is the Wikipedia article.

Older versions of Tomcat used to require JDK in order to compile JSP files. This is no longer necessary, as Jasper can do this job.

Upvotes: 12

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