> From: "Billy Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:24 AM
> Are you using Tomcat 4? Tomcat 4's catalina.bat requires more 4 files in > the java/bin directory to start. I don't think just include the tools.jar > is good enough. Then fix it. It never ceases to amaze me how people feel that these files some how must be inviolate. Let's think the hard questions...WHY does Tomcat needs these files? Is any of this functionality required by YOUR use of Tomcat? No?? Then bu-bye! Chant this 3 times: "We have the source code! We have the source code! We have the source code!" It's not art. It's not there only for display. If it doesn't do something that you want, find out why and FIX IT. If you're charitable, you'll send the fixes back. For example, perhaps someone could create a 'catalina-jre.bat' that only runs with the JRE? OMG! Certainly Tomcat is a large, complex piece of software but that's no excuse for not probing a LITTLE BIT at the soft edges to gain an understanding of why things are done the way they are. It may be a black box, but that box has holes in it, and is, in fact, able to be completely disassembled as far as you like. Shine lights into the holes, tear complete subsystems apart. Odds are very high that you do not need to understand Tomcat as a whole to coerce it to do whatever specific thing that it lacks for your application. So, coerce away. Regards, Will Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
