Here’s the basic setup required to put the jspc plugin into your build:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
   <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>9.4.5.v20170502</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>jspc</id>
       <goals>
         <goal>jspc</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

The configurable parameters are as follows:

Taking all the default settings, here’s how to configure the war plugin to use the generated web.xml that includes all of the jsp servlet declarations:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <webXml>${project.basedir}/target/web.xml</webXml>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

As compiling jsps is usually done during preparation for a production release and not usually done during development, it is more convenient to put the plugin setup inside a <profile> which which can be deliberately invoked during prep for production.

For example, the following profile will only be invoked if the flag -Dprod is present on the run line:

<profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>prod</id>
      <activation>
        <property><name>prod</name></property>
      </activation>
      <build>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
          <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>9.4.5.v20170502</version>
          <!-- put your configuration in here -->
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
          <!-- put your configuration in here -->
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
      </build>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

The following invocation would cause your code to be compiled, the jsps to be compiled, the <servlet> and <servlet-mapping>s inserted in the web.xml and your webapp assembled into a war:

$ mvn -Dprod package

Precompiling jsps with an overlaid war requires a bit more configuration. This is because you need to separate the steps of unpacking the overlaid war and then repacking the final target war so the jetty-jspc-maven-plugin has the opportunity to access the overlaid resources.

In the example we’ll show, we will use an overlaid war. The overlaid war will provide the web.xml file but the jsps will be in src/main/webapp (i.e. part of the project that uses the overlay). We will unpack the overlaid war file, compile the jsps and merge their servlet definitions into the extracted web.xml, then pack everything into a war.

Here’s an example configuration of the war plugin that separate those phases into an unpack phase, and then a packing phase:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>unpack</id>
        <goals><goal>exploded</goal></goals>
        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
        <configuration>
          <webappDirectory>target/foo</webappDirectory>
          <overlays>
            <overlay />
            <overlay>
              <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
              <artifactId>test-jetty-webapp</artifactId>
            </overlay>
          </overlays>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
      <execution>
        <id>pack</id>
        <goals><goal>war</goal></goals>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <configuration>
          <warSourceDirectory>target/foo</warSourceDirectory>
          <webXml>target/web.xml</webXml>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Now you also need to configure the jetty-jspc-maven-plugin so that it can use the web.xml that was extracted by the war unpacking and merge in the generated definitions of the servlets. This is in target/foo/WEB-INF/web.xml. Using the default settings, the web.xml merged with the jsp servlet definitions will be put into target/web.xml.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
     <artifactId>jetty-jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>9.4.5.v20170502</version>
     <executions>
       <execution>
         <id>jspc</id>
         <goals>
           <goal>jspc</goal>
         </goals>
         <configuration>
            <webXml>target/foo/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
            <includes>**/*.foo</includes>
            <excludes>**/*.fff</excludes>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>