Re: JAVA_HOME policy
On 10 Jan 2003, Joe Phillips wrote:
> #2 is a bit trickier. tools.jar is needed in some cases, most notably
> servlet/jsp containers need it in order to compile JSP at runtime. My
> JBOSS packages fall into this category. tools.jar is installed
> somewhere under JAVA_HOME, JBOSS needs tools.jar and so needs JAVA_HOME.
Technically, no. Only the web container needs tools.jar. Not jboss.
When jboss-catalina or jboss-jetty get installed, they should be the ones that
go looking for tools.jar, and add it to jboss' deploy dirs(or to their own
internal classpath). JBoss itself shouldn't do this.
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