On 10 Jan 2003, Joe Phillips wrote: > #2 is a bit trickier. tools.jar is needed in some cases, most notably > servlet/jsp containers need it in order to compile JSP at runtime. My > JBOSS packages fall into this category. tools.jar is installed > somewhere under JAVA_HOME, JBOSS needs tools.jar and so needs JAVA_HOME.
Technically, no. Only the web container needs tools.jar. Not jboss. When jboss-catalina or jboss-jetty get installed, they should be the ones that go looking for tools.jar, and add it to jboss' deploy dirs(or to their own internal classpath). JBoss itself shouldn't do this.
