Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I have read the previous topics that relate to this issue, but none of them work for us.

We are running a secure (HTTPS) application using Tomcat 4. All of the JSP code is built using Tag libraries and they are behind WEB-INF (bar the initial page), so that they can only be accessed via a Servlet.

I have tried all the examples to load these JSP pages, including adding them to the web.xml and using that nice little servlet, JspPreCompiler. This fails, as you can not access the JSP files directlly from outside.

What I need to do is to load these JSP files when the server starts, so that the first user is not presented with a long wait and a blank page when the Tag libraries build the page(s).

Yours in desperation.