But most likely, you could get away by using the jre just by having
tools.jar (>1.2) from the jdk in the classpath. Ant bypasses the exe's to
call directly the java classes being these tools... --DD

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: jdk or jre

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Lokesh Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>      What core tasks require ant to be runing using a jdk? I am sure
>      <javac> is one. Are there other which require a jdk?

Yes.  From the top of my head, <rmic> and <javah> and probably
others.  Basically all tasks that perform things you'd usually need a
JDK for.

Stefan

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