Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-08 Thread Kresten Krab Thorup
On Aug 2, 2005, at 2:16 AM, David Jencks wrote: Is janino better for compiling jsps than the eclipse compiler? I've heard of it in drools but don't know anything about it. Janino does not cover the complete Java language [see here for a list of missing features:

JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread Aaron Mulder
Do I understand correctly that you need to run Geronimo under a JDK in M4 because of the tools.jar hack, but under HEAD that's been removed and it will run find under a JRE because is uses a 3rd-party compiler? Thanks, Aaron

Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread Lyndon Samson
janino http://www.janino.net/ might be a reasonable substitute for tools.jar

Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread David Jencks
It's too late to change M4 -- it doesn't actually use the tools.jar but it's apparently still needed because some obsolete code didn't get removed in time. In M5/Head the obsolete code is gone and we are using the eclipse compiler for jsps and cglib to generate proxies for everything else

Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread David Jencks
I'd try it, but I think that is correct. Tools.jar is certainly not needed for head david jencks On Aug 1, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote: Do I understand correctly that you need to run Geronimo under a JDK in M4 because of the tools.jar hack, but under HEAD that's been removed

Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread Calvin Austin
btw Technically there is such a thing as a Sun JRE +javac/tools.jar that isn't a JDK. It was done to enable JSP development http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docchanges.html regards calvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, the JDK is required in M4 according to a previous email from Dain where

Re: JSP Compiler / tools.jar for M4

2005-08-01 Thread Jeremy Boynes
Calvin Austin wrote: btw Technically there is such a thing as a Sun JRE +javac/tools.jar that isn't a JDK. It was done to enable JSP development http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docchanges.html IIRC this was done to allow people to redistribute a JRE+tools.jar in conjunction with an