tomcat4 with free java on sarge?

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:53:14AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> <disclaimer>I know close to nothing about java...</disclaimer>
> 
> I have to install a server with tomcat4 but, whenever possible, I'd rather not use non-free software...
> I tried with the non-free j2sdk1.4 from blackdown, and everything worked quite fine.
> So I decided to try with free java, so I installed free-java-sdk and kaffe, but it does not seem to work...
> According to http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html, "If your package is in contrib, also mention the 
> reason, e.g. if the package does not run with free JVMs or if it (build-)depends on other packages in contrib." but I 
> did not see such an explanation /usr/share/doc/tomcat4/README.Debian.gz and the dependencies are sitisfiable without 
> non-free java...
> 
> Do my question is: is it possible to run tomcat with free java?

I did it. I used kaffe and disabled the use of the security manager in /etc/default/tomcat4/
It worked find but I would not recommend this for a productive system.
kaffe 1.1.6 will hopefully contain the needed patches to run it with security
manager.

When Sarge is released I will maintain the a repository with backported java packages
to be able to use uptodate free java on a stable Debian release.


Michael
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