_jspService is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit

I ran out of static html/jss/css blocks I could externalize into jsp:include (mostly non-static html was left) …

You can put in your web.xml, mappedfile set to false like so to get rid of many static lines that aren’t necessarily good blocks to put into an include, but they add up to save space:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
    ...
    <init-param>
        <param-name>mappedfile</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    ...
</servlet>

Peter Hart’s <c:catch> solution sounds like nice option as well.