I believe there are licensing issues with distributing the JDK but not with the JRE, although theoretically you could just get the client to download the JDK I really don't see the point of that myself...
Do you use JSP's in your webapp? If you do I think if you pre-compile all of them prior to distribution you should be able to use a JRE, you just need to set JAVA_HOME to point to the right spot. If you only use servlets then the JRE should work fine. However having said that the JDK contains different JVM's one optimised for client side applications eg. Swing based ones and another for server based applications like Tomcat, I am yet to fully investigate the benefits of this however, maybe someone else on the list can provide some further insight? Regards, -- Jason Bainbridge KDE Web Team - http://kde.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 May 2003 02:15, Noel Rappin wrote: > Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I can't find the exact information anywhere. > > I see that Tomcat requires a JDK, not a JRE to enable compilation of JSP > pages. Is there any reasonable way to run off a JRE? Are there any > license issues involved in distributing the JDK as part of a web > application instead of the JRE (we actually distribute the web > application, so it's not a question of just having one copy on our > server)? How do other people manage this in practice? > > Thanks, > > Noel Rappin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
