JSP precompile error

I am running into a problem when precompiling jsp pages that use <%@ include ... > and relative paths.

This is the error I get:

The include directive that is causing the problem is:
<%@ include file="../../shared/intro-hdr.inc" %>

If I change it toa uri that is relative to the application root, such as:
<%@ include file="/shared/intro-hdr.inc" %>
it works just fine. No problem with any future applications. The problem in that we already support several applications with several hundred jsp pages that use the first format. Manually changing all of them would take many, many man hours... Plus they have been precompiled before without error. We have no idea what is different now.

We are using apache's jasper jspc tool.

Any suggestions?
[ August 16, 2005: Message edited by: Paul Bourdeaux ]

Since the japser compiler is Tomcat specific, I'm going to move this over to the Tomcat forum where it will get more exposure to the Tomcat-savvy.

I've never done any pre-compilation, so I don't have any specific answer to your issue.

And, not that it's any help to you, I long ago learned that relative references are a headache waiting to happen. Not only are there unexpected gotcha's like this wating for you, the relative nature of the references creates an artificial binding between files that locks you into a particular structure. Making any file structure changes becomes a much bigger deal that it needs to be.

I long ago learned that relative references are a headache waiting to happen

I whole heartedly agree! Unfortunately these applications were in place before I was...