title: Using .html files as JSPs
body: <p>This may be a silly question but I've found no answer when googling this. </p>
  
  <p>Currently, I map the requests from someFileName.html to a servlet which then forwards to someFileName.jsp using servlet mappings in web.xml. I would like to avoid that and just configure my application server so that html files are parsed and executed as if they were JSPs (so that custom tags and EL could be used from within the HTML). Bonus to answers that allow any extensions to be mapped to the JSP processor. </p>
  
  <p>I use Tomcat but I'd like the solution to be portable to other containers such as Glassfish. </p>