Re:Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM
by solarengineer on Saturday September 16, 2017 @07:37PM
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Those who want to provide only class files and no jsp code use the JSP pre-compilation approach. The JSP folks get compiled to Java servlet byte code the same as at runtime.
To be more precise, a compiler is required for JSP, which is a mixture of html and java that is compiled to servlets.
Theoretically you can compile them ahead of time (before deployment) but as far as I can tell no-one does.