> No downside? What about additional processing overhead on the server?

I can't speak for ASPs (which were also discussed), but for JSPs, most
servlet engines that I've seen that support them (JRun, ServletExec, and
BEA WebLogic) all generally (re)compile the JSP into servlet code only
on an as-needed basis (e.g., if he mod date of the .jsp is newer than
the corresponding .class file), so that the processing overhead is minimal
(time to check file stamps) except for the first time or whenever the
JSP is changed and (re)compilation occurs. Some of the servlet engines
(I think ServletExec and JRun at least) also will allow you to only
deploy the compiled .class files so you don't even need to keep the .jsp
files present. But it's been a very long time (over a year) that I've
fussed with this and at my age my DRAM is already overcrowed so I can't
be real sure of which servlet engine(s) that supported running w/out the
actual JSP files.

-kevin

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