How to execute a JSP file from command line?

[Kavita Ghia]

Hello friends,
Is there a way to execute a JSP from the comandline or from my own application?

Regards,
Kavita

[P SOLAIAPPAN]

Hi,
You cannot execute JSP through command line. JSP needs a servlet engine to conver it in to servlet code and run. JSP is meant for web applications, not for stand alone applications
solaiappan

[Frank Carver]

If your JSP is already running in a servlet container, you can always contact it using Java's built-in networking and request some output. Or are you looking for a way to run a JSP without a servlet container?

[pooranan balasubramanian]

Hi,
I want to know how to execute a JSP page within a container without issuing a call from a browser or another Java program. Basically i need to execute some tags from a taglibrary(OScache).

[Tina Coleman]

You could try poking at some of the unit testing frameworks - Cactus, etc. That's a horrible hack to get to the tags, but could be theoretically done.

[deepak kukreja]

what option you do have is to compile ur jsp page without executing it.
But for compiling too u have to use browser.
u can use jsp_precompile parameter for that.