tomcat4 with free java on sarge?

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Wed, 25 May 2005 15:45:49 +0200, 
Nicolas Boullis <nicolas.boullis@ecp.fr> wrote: 

> Michael Koch wrote:
>>>Thanks a lot for the information. I juste tried, and it worked quite fine. :-)
>>> Why would you not recommend this for a production system? Do you
>>> think that kaffe is not stable enough, or is it about the security
>>> manager?
>> Its only about the security manager. Kaffe is really good these days.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like the webapp I have to deploy does not run
> with kaffe anyway... :-(
> (FYI, this is CAS + LDAP backend from esup-cas-server; see
> http://esup-casgeneric.sourceforge.net/download.html)

I couldn't run webapps with the struts framework. This is another known
stopper.

>>>BTW, how useful is the security manager if I use only trusted applications?
>> Depends on your trust. I wouldnt even trust my own applications to
>> death.
>
> OK, so I have 2 good reasons to keep the j2sdk1.4 from blackdown...

System.exit(0) in a servlet could stop tomcat if you disable the
security manager ;-) (ok that's a strange idea but I got trainees that
could do that :-D)

Cheers,

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