The jsp-configuration element

Introduction

The jsp-configuration describes how the JSP container is working.

There should be only one jsp-configuration element inside an subsystem=web element.

Attributes

Common Attributes

The jsp-configuration supports the following attributes:

Attribute	Description
development	Enable development mode. (see modification-test-interval too) The default value is false.
disabled	Tell the container that the jsp-configuration container should be disabled. The default value is false.
keep-generated	keep the generated Java source code for each page. The default value is true.
trim-spaces	Remove useless spaces from the response. The default value is false.
tag-pooling	tag handler instances are pooled and reused. The default value is true.
mapped-file	static content are generated with one print statement per input line, to ease debugging. The default value is true.
check-interval	The time in seconds between checks to see if a JSP page needs to be recompiled. The default value is 0 checks are dissabled.
modification-test-interval	The time in seconds a changed JSP aged before being recompiled. The default value is 4.
recompile-on-fail	Force a recompilation attempt on next access if compilation failed. The default value is false.
smap	generate JSR 045 SMAP Files. The default value is true.
dump-smap	dump the SMAP info for JSR 045 debugging to a file The default value is false.
generate-strings-as-char-arrays	generate text strings as char arrays. The default value is false.
error-on-use-bean-invalid-class-attribute	cause a compilation error when the bean can't be instantiated. The default value is false.
scratch-dir	scratch directory to use when compiling JSP pages. The default value is work.
source-vm	JDK version the source files are compatible with. The default value is 1.5.
target-vm	JDK version the class files are compatible with. The default value is 1.5.
java-encoding	Java file encoding to use for generating java source files. The default value is UTF8.
x-powered-by	Generated servlet adds X-Powered-By response header. The default value is true.
display-source-fragment	include a source fragment in exception messages. The default value is true.