Precompiling JSPs with Maven - Part 2

If you use war dependencies for building your web applications the approach described in part 1 will not work for your application because the JSPC-Plugin by default works on your local JSP files and is executed during the lifecycle phase "process-classes".

Here is how to deal with this added requirement.

Precompiling JSP Pages with Maven

Recently I encountered the requirement to precompile JSP pages in a Maven webapp project using the following environment:

• Java 5
• Tomcat 5.x
• Jsp pages with XML Syntax (jspx)
  

Solving the problem is not too difficult if you keep some things in mind.