FreeBSD 5.1, Tomcat 5.0.19, which JDK?

[Rowdy]

Kang Liu wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-java at freebsd.org
> 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-java at freebsd.org]
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>>On Behalf Of Rowdy
>>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:08 AM
>>To: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
>>Subject: FreeBSD 5.1, Tomcat 5.0.19, which JDK?
>>
>>So the question probably is: does Tomcat 5 really *need* the Diablo JDK
>>or will it run fine with the other one?
>>
> 
> The Jakarta-tomcat5 do *not* need Diablo JDK, it can run well with other
> JDK.
> Have you tried run tomcat41 or 40 with Diablo JDK on your platform? Is there
> any special hardware on your computer?
> 
> Kang

The PC is a fairly vanilla PIII 500MHz, 384M RAM, IDE hard drives, SCSI 
tape drive, running 5.1-RELEASE and cvsupped regularly.

I have not tried the older versions of Tomcat as we have recently 
started using version 5 under Windows at work, and I wanted to create as 
similar an environment at home as possible.

This is not a critical production environment, so if you say that Tomcat 
5 should work with a JDK other than the Diablo 1.3.1, then that is good 
enough to keep me going :-)

Btw the tomcat50ctl utility has the full path to the Diablo JDK 
hard-coded in it, which is why I renamed the original Diablo JDK install 
directory and created the symlink from jdk-1.4.2 to diablo-1.3.1.  This 
is not the cleanest solution, but Diablo JDK 1.3.1 was installed as a 
dependancy of Tomcat 5, and I do not believe it is needed by anything 
else I have installed.

(partial /usr/local listing:)

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root      wheel        8 Apr  3 17:31 diablo-jdk1.3.1 -> 
jdk1.4.2
drwxr-xr-x   9 root      wheel      512 Feb 27 07:33 diablo-jdk1.3.1_orig
drwxr-xr-x  11 www       www        512 Apr  3 17:31 jakarta-tomcat5.0
drwxr-xr-x   8 root      wheel      512 Mar 25 06:24 jdk1.4.2

Thanx very much.

Dave