Recompiling JSPs During Development in WebSphere/Eclipse

Here's the scenario. You change a public static final variable, say version number, which you are using in your JSPs. You clean the project and rebuild it expecting the new version number to show up in your rendered JSP page, but it still shows the old version number, completely ignoring the change you just made. Or, when you are using JSP includes, the include changes, but the file including it does not. The result: the latter is not recompiled and will not see the former changes. What!? OK, so maybe there is some special command in WebSphere (WS) I need to use --- none that I can find. So what do you do? A Google search revealed one method (suggested on Java Ranch forum [1]): Delete the compiled JSPs from the server's cache. On WS 5.0, this is located in the directory Workspace\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.wtp.server.core\tmp0\cache\localhost\server1\EAR\war. However, I'm using WS 7.0 and the cache is no longer located in this directory, at least I couldn't find it. The other method is to manually save ('touch') each JSP file so its modification time changes; if the files are modified, they will be recompiled. Of course, you can open each JSP file, make a change, and save it. I added a "touchjsp" target to my Ant build script to automate this for me. The target is something like the following

<target name="touchjsp">
 <touch>
   <fileset dir="WebContent" includes="**/*.jsp" />
 </touch>
</target>

This can be called as part of the build process, or directly to simply touch the JSP files. Depending on how the target is executed, you may or may not have to refresh the project in WS to detect and compile the files. Having to do this manually in an IDE as mature as Eclipse/WS is ridiculous. At minimum a command should exist to "recompile all JSP files". If there is an easier way to do this than that described above, please enlighten me. References [1] JSP changes does not reflect, Java Range Forum, Jan 2008