http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5013917/can-i-serve-jsps-from-inside-a-jar-in-lib-or-is-there-a-workaround Servlet 3.0 which Tomcat 7 supports includes the ability to package jsps into a jar.You need to:place your jsps in META-INF/resources directory of your jaroptionally include a web-fragment.xml in the META-INF directory of your jarplace the jar in WEB-INF/lib directory of your warYou shou..