Having looked more into the issue of deploying tomcat without JDK I have
discovered the following. (I have read release notes, looked at Tomcat site,
read JSPC scripts, web.xml, server.xml, looked at Faqs, looked at archived
messages etc).
If you include tools.jar (part of JDK) in classpath JSPs will compile, but
we cannot deploy tools.jar since SUN will not tolerate such larks.
If we change web.xml on Tomcat 3.2.1 to say use the Jikes compiler, it does
not read it,
this may have been fixed in Tomcat 4 or 5 but we do not wish to change to a
new version that is not well tested yet.
If we change the webserver.jar file to hack it to use the Jikes compiler it
would use it, but then we'd be left deploying a non-standard Tomcat jar
which isnt good.
People on this list have not responded which indicates either...
(a) Nobody knows the answer because they don't deploy Tomcat, and just use
the JDK
(b) Everybody knows but considers it to obvious to say or write down
(c) The list is having its own political factions battle and will shortly
decide that Tomcat cannot be mentioned unless you have a blue-Peter badge
and joinign the list shall be outlawed everywhere except in Malta.
Pete
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