I'm new to
JSP, and am trying to follow along with a textbook in which we look at the differences between JSP files and the
java files created from them. I'm using
Tomcat and IntelliJ IDEA, both recent versions. Whenever I compile my project (which is just downloaded code from the textbook) everything works fine, I get accurate results in my browser. The problem is I can't for the life of me find the .java files that are supposedly created. It seems like they're supposed to be in the tomcat directory but they aren't, and I can't find them anywhere else and am coming up empty on windows search. So I'm thinking the files are getting deleted. So how would I stop this from happening?