diff --git a/spring-boot/README.md b/spring-boot/README.md index 9ae20bd56ff..89f2ba30a29 100644 --- a/spring-boot/README.md +++ b/spring-boot/README.md @@ -249,14 +249,16 @@ can also register items directly if your bean implements the `ServletContextInit interface. -### JSP limitations When running a Spring Boot application that uses -an embedded servlet container and is packaged as an executable -archive, there are some limitations in the JSP support. +### JSP limitations -* With Tomcat it should work if you use WAR packaging. I.e. an +When running a Spring Boot application that uses +an embedded servlet container (and is packaged as an executable +archive), there are some limitations in the JSP support. + +* With Tomcat it should work if you use WAR packaging, i.e. an executable WAR will work, and will also be deployable to a standard - container (Tomcat included). An executable JAR will not work because - of a hard coded file patter in Tomcat itself. + container (not limited to, but including Tomcat). An executable JAR + will not work because of a hard coded file pattern in Tomcat. * Jetty does not currently work as an embedded container with JSPs. There should be a way to make it work, so hopefully someone