Date: 02/03/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, jsp

Target Audience Java/JSP developers on Tomcat and Application Server administrators. Problem Tomcat 5.5 (unlike Tomcat 5.0 and versions below) comes with Eclipse JDT compiler enabled by default for JSP compilation. JDT compiler is not jdk 1.5 compliant as of now. Solution To just use the javac 1.5 compiler with Java 1.4 source code compliant JSP pages (you cannot [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-javac-15-or-beyond-compiler-for-jsp-compilation-in-tomcat-55-with-generics-enabled-and-other-15-only-features/