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Re: Tomcat 4.0.1 in Debian?



"GOMEZ Henri" <hgomez@slib.fr> wrote:

> That's  a real  problem with  the dreaded  Sun Binary  License.  You
> could  provide a  jar in  a  product, ie  a tomcat  binary could  be
> released with jndi, jta, javamail but couldn't put it alone.
> 
> So  you  couldn't provide  a  jndi deb  package  and  install it  on
> /usr/share/java  and then make  your tomcat  4 package  require this
> one...

Maybe we can write a dumb program that send an email (javamail+jaf) to
a user  registred in  a ldap server  (jndi+ldap) to say  HelloWorld :)
Isn't it a good solution? :))

> The jpackage team is waiting replies from Sun officials about the 
> packaging problem to decide if we'll use the nosrc packaging.
> 
> May be it will be good for us if you, the debian java team,
> send also request to Sun for packaging these API ?

I am  *very* new to this  list, and I even  do not know how  to make a
deb!   Maybe  someone who  has  more  responsabilities  in the  Debian
distribution can do that. Free Java! :)

-- Arnaud
http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/



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