Why and when to perform this task
Several IBM WebSphere extensions are provided for enhancing your JavaServer Pages (JSP) files. This task provides a summary of the extensions that you can utilize.Steps for this task
Create Java components, referring to the JSP specifications from Sun Microsystems.
See Resources for learning for links to coding specifications and examples.
WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5 added IBM extensions to the base Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Since the JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.1 and JSP 1.2 Specifications are backward compatible to the JSP 1.0 Specifications, you can invoke the APIs with the IBM extensions without modification.
The extensions belong to these categories:
Results
Note: You can choose to have the compiled JSP files in the WAS_HOME/temp directory deleted when the associated application is updated or deleted. You do this by setting the com.ibm.websphere.deletejspclasses, com.ibm.websphere.deletejspclasses.delete, or com.ibm.websphere.deletejspclasses.update system property for the node agent of the node on which the application will be updated or deleted. For more information about setting these properties, see Example: Setting Custom JVM Properties.