No, you're right. You can make Apache listen on port 80 while running
as root because it'll change the process' ownership when it opens a
new
connection. There is no portable way of doing this in Java; therefore,
Hey! And they call it an advanced language?
P.S.: One or two trolls are hiding in this message, please do NOT feed!
Can't resist the urge to feed that one ;)
It's just that Java being cross-platform and the notion of process owner being specific to only a few platforms, Java does not suports this feature natively. Jakarta Commons' deamon is a unix-only solution (I imagine it uses JNI). So its's possible, but not portable. Still an advanced language...
-Vincent.
