clearing up issues around jsvc or jakarta commons daemon

[Tim Diggins]

Hi -

having googled and read around, there seems to be an approach to jakarta 
commons daemon (jsvc) that I don't understand. There is no FreeBSD port 
of it (there are darwinports and other OSX ports, however).

The last discussion of this  [1] simply states - "you must use .... 
(apache + mod_webdav/mod_proxy/mod_jk)" -- no discussion of why...

However almost all *recent* informed discussion in the tomcat world 
suggests that one should never just blindly serve tomcat behind apache, 
unless there is reason to - instead you serve your application both 
ways, profile them both and choose the optimal solution (many times 
standalone tomcat is more appropriate, even with lots static files)

With Jsvc / jakarta commons daemon, you can then start up tomcat on port 
80 (and switch down to a lesser user) - just like apache httpd. On the 
tomcat site, there are full instructions[2]  for how to compile on the 
tomcat site (including specific details for FreeBSD - there are even 
FreeBSD binaries around).

So why no port? If there's just no one willing to do it, that's cool, 
but is there some reason that it __should not__ be done (security?), it 
would be good to understand that.

thanks

Tim

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2004-March/001877.html
[2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html