Jasper is not case sensitive when compiling JSPs on Windows

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When deploying an exploded webapp in windows and a package name matches a class name jasper will throw the following error, for example where the package name a matches a classname A or a.class.:

    ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 

An error occurred at line: <line num> in the jsp file: /some.jsp
com.abc.a cannot be resolved to a type
...

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5
  • Windows
  • Jasper

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