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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:47 -0800
From: Anil Vijendran <Anil.Vijendran@eng.sun.com>
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To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tomcat 4 Jasper ClassLoading changes to support SecurityManager
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+1.

Glenn Nielsen wrote:

> In order to make it easier to integrate the SecurityManager into Jasper
> for Tomcat 4 and to change some of Japsers annoying behaviours, I have
> been working on switching Jasper over to the URLClassLoader.
>
> I have the class loading changes in place and Jasper passes all watchdog
> tests.  I wanted to run these changes past everyone before I finish
> cleaning up the changes and committing it.  (I still have some work to
> do on JspC and still need to add support for the SecurityManager.)
>
> Jasper now creates a URLClassLoader for each JSP page and defers any other
> class loading to the web app context class loader.  Using a single class
> loader per JSP allowed me to remove all the code that increments the
> class version number, i.e. the work directory no longer has multiple
> *.java and *.class files for the same JSP page.  These changes also made
> it easy for me to put the java source and class files in the same directory
> tree as found in the web app context.  When Jasper is run in a servlet
> container it no longer puts the class files in a package, they are now
> in the default package.
>
> These changes simplified the code quite a bit and also gave a performance
> improvement.
>
> When running watchdog tests the new jasper was ~25% faster than the current
> jasper on a first compile or on first jsp class access after restart.
> On recompile of a jsp page it was 37% faster.  Execution of JSP servlet
> after it had already been compiled and loaded was slightly faster.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
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> MOREnet System Programming               |  * if iz ina coment.      |
> Missouri Research and Education Network  |  */                       |
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Peace, Anil +<:-)