tomcat4 with free java on sarge?

[Nicolas Boullis]

Michael Koch wrote:
> 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.

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?
BTW, how useful is the security manager if I use only trusted applications?


> 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.

That's good news! :-)


Thanks,

Nicolas Boullis