Re: JAVA_HOME policy
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:07, Greg Wilkins wrote:
>
> It is really jasper (the JSP engine from jakarta) that needs
> tools.jar. Tomcat is just one of several servlet containers to
> use jasper.
Right, tomcat was my example. I understand there are other systems that
rely on the java compiler (ant has been mentioned to me and Jetty is
another obvious addition to the list). My point was that there are
systems that depend on this jar file which may be installed in any
number of places - making it tough to maintain packages that need the
tools.jar file.
> Note that jasper2 no longer directly uses tools.jar, as it uses
> ant to do all it's compiling. Thus whatever ant.jar needs to find
> tools.jar is what jasper and hence tomcat needs.
well, that's good to know that we won't be dependant on tools.jar for
jasper2-using systems.
What software uses jasper2?
> So hopefully the tools.jar dependancy will soon be history.
> Thus anything done to support it in the short term should clearly
> be of a temporary nature.
well, if it's only temporary and we know it won't re-surface, there's no
need to add it to policy.
-joe
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