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<H1> JspC -- A Command Line JSP Compilation Tool </H1>
<H3>$Id$</H3>

<H2>OVERVIEW </H2>

Even thought the primary focus of JSP is as a container run environment,
sometimes it is useful to create a pure servlet out of the JSP page.
JspC encapsulates the core JSP to servlet translation into a program
that has no dependencies on a containing servlet engine and allows you
to translate JSP pages into an equivalent Java servlet.

<H2>GENERAL USE </H2>

The most basic use of JspC is to compile a JSP page in place with the
jsp page(s) as the arguments.  This will compile the page with the
resulting java files placed in the directory JspC was called from.  The
package will be determined from the directories that the JSP page lives
in.  This will be relative to the web-app it live in (if it exists or is
specified) or the default package.  The class name will be the name of
the JSP page without the extension.

<P>To override these default values you can use the <tt>-c</tt> and 
<tt>-p</tt> options.  <tt>-c &lt;class name&gt;</tt> changes the name of 
the class of the first compiled JSP page to the class specified.
Subsequent JSP pages will not be affected by this option.  The 
<tt>-p &lt;package name&gt;</tt> option sets the package name of all JSP 
pages compiled by that invocation.  Web-Apps specified for translation 
will not be affected by either of these options.</P>

<P>The directory that the resulting java files will go into is specified by
the <TT>-d &lt;dir&gt;</TT> and <tt>-dd &lt;dir&gt;</tt> options.  Both
of these specify a directory that files will be written into.  When
using <tt>-d</tt> the java files will be placed in package appropriate
sub directories while with <tt>-dd</tt> all of the java files will be
placed literally into the specified directory (without any subdirectory
structure).</P>

<P>The amount of command line output can be throttled by the <tt>-q</tt> and 
the <tt>-v&lt;#&gt;</tt> options.  <tt>-q</tt> has the same effect as
<tt>-v0</tt>, which is to turn off all but fatal error messages.  
<tt>-v1</tt> builds on <tt>-v0</tt> and it will print out error messages, 
<tt>-v2</tt> adds warnings, <tt>-v3</tt> adds informational messages
that have no operational impact, and <tt>-v4</tt> adds various messages
used in debugging JspC itself.</P>

<P><tt>-ieplugin</tt> is used by the <tt>&lt;jsp:plugin&gt;</tt> tags.
If the Java Plug-in COM Class-ID you want to use changes then it can be
specified here.  This should not need to be altered.</P>

<P>As an aid to makefiles, the <tt>-die[#]</tt> option will cause the
JVM to exit with an error code if a fatal error occurs during the
translation.   This can be caused by such things as an invalid JSP 
or an unwritable destination.  There is an optional number that can be 
specified to specify the specific exit code, but it defaults to 
<tt>1</tt> if it is not specified or cannot be deciphered.</P>

<P>The <tt>-mapped</tt> option will split the JSP text content into a
one line per call format.  There are comments above and below the mapped
write calls to localize where in the JSP file each line of text comes
from.  This can lead to a minor performance degradation (but it is bound 
by a linear complexity).  Without this options all adjacent writes are
concatenated into a single write.</P>

<H2>WEB-APP INTEGRATION</H2>
<P>JspC is web-app aware.  The package names and all relative uri
references in JSP elements are rooted to a web-app base that is either
heuristically determined or specified by the user.<P>

<P><tt>-uriroot &lt;dir&gt;</tt> specifies the root of the web 
application.  This is where all absolute uris will be resolved from.  
If it is not specified then the first JSP page will be used to derive 
it.  To derive it each parent directory of the first JSP page is 
searched for a <tt>WEB-INF</tt> directory, and the directory closest to 
the JSP page that has one will be used.  If none can be found then the 
directory JspC was called from will be used.  This only affects pages 
translated from an explicitly declared JSP file.</P>

<P><tt>-uribase &lt;uri&gt;</tt> is used to establish the uri context of
relative URI references in the JSP pages.  If it does not exist then it
is derived from the location of the file relative to the declared or 
derived value of <tt>-uriroot</tt>.    This only affects pages 
translated from an explicitly declared JSP file.</P>

<P> The jsp files option of <tt>-webapp &lt;dir&gt;</tt> is used to
specify that an entire web-app's JSP files are to be translated.  The
value of <tt>-uriroot</tt> for that directory becomes the specified
directory, and all relative uris are resolved against their position in
the web app.  Currently specifying a war, jar, or zip file is not
supported.  Each directory is recursively searched and any file with a 
<tt>.jsp</tt> extension is parsed as though it is a JSP page.  These
pages obey the <tt>-d</tt>, <tt>-dd</tt>, and <tt>-p</tt> options.

<P>Appropriate entries for the <tt>web.xml</tt> file can be created via
the <tt>-webinc &lt;file&gt;</tt> and <tt>-webxml &lt;file&gt;</tt>
options.  All JSP files and web-apps parsed by the single invocation
will have appropriate <tt>servlet</tt> and <tt>servlet-mapping</tt> 
elements created for them.  The <tt>webinc</tt> creates only an XML
fragment suitable for inclusion into an existing <tt>web.xml</tt> file,
while the <tt>webxml</tt> option creates an entire file with the 
appropriate headers and root elements suitable for use as a 
<tt>web.xml</tt> file.</P>

<H2>COMMAND LINE SUMMARY</H2>
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Usage: jspc &lt;options&gt; [--] &lt;jsp files&gt;
where jsp files is any number of:
    &lt;file&gt;         A file to be parsed as a jsp page
    -webapp &lt;dir&gt;  A directory containing a web-app, all jsp pages
                   will recursively be parsed
where options include:
    -q          Quite mode (same as -v0)
    -v[#]       Verbose mode (optional number is level, default is 2)
    -d &lt;dir&gt;    Output Directory
    -dd &lt;dir&gt;   Literal Output Directory.  (package dirs will not be made)
    -p &lt;name&gt;         Name of target package
    -c &lt;name&gt;         Name of target class name
                (only applies to first JSP page)
    -mapped     Generate separate write() calls for each HTML line in the JSP
    -die[#]     Generate an error return code (#) on fatal errors.
                If the number is absent or unparsable it defaults to 1.
    -uribase &lt;dir&gt;  The uri directory compilations should be relative to
                    (Default is "/")
    -uriroot &lt;dir&gt;  The root directory that uri files should be resolved
                    against, (Default is the directory jspc is invoked from)
    -webinc &lt;file&gt;  Creates partial servlet mappings for the -webapp option
    -webxml &lt;file&gt;  Creates a complete web.xml when using the -webapp option.
    -ieplugin &lt;clsid&gt;  Java Plugin classid for Internet Explorer
    -sax2 &lt;driverclassname&gt; Driver class name for the SAX 2.0 parser to be used
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