Running tomcat jasper task (jspc) with gradle build

Question

I\'m trying to compile our jsp files using jspc within gradle but am getting an exception.

Here is the pertinent gradle section

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Answer 1

Instead of using catalina-tasks.xml from Tomcat's bin directory you can use the Tomcat JAR file that includes the class org.apache.jasper.JspC instead. If there are any libraries missing for your JSP compilation you can easily add them to the configuration jasper.

configurations {
    jasper
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    jasper 'org.apache.tomcat:jasper:6.0.33',
           'javax.servlet:jstl:1.1.2',
           'taglibs:standard:1.1.2'
}

test.doLast {
    ant.taskdef(classname: 'org.apache.jasper.JspC', name: 'jasper', classpath: configurations.jasper.asPath)
    ant.jasper(validateXml: false, uriRoot: webAppDir, outputDir: "$buildDir/jspc")
}