Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
"Trygve Laugstøl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:08 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: Java stuff tends to depend on ant; I read something that seemed to say that ant was licence-dodgy, at some point in time. Pages need timestamps! That is also

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-13 Thread MrDemeanour
Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:08 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: >> if I have to be non-free at all, I may as well go the whole hog, >> and run it on Windoze. I'm not up for compromises. > > That is a pretty dumb statement, why would you want to move to Windows just because you can'

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-13 Thread MrDemeanour
Trygve Laugstøl wrote: On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 15:06 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: Why should a package specific-question be answered in a FAQ related to something different? Well, my question was about servlet containers in general, not about a specific package. A servlet container is like a part

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-12 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:08 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: > Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > Debian stable is uh, stable. Except for security bugs or other > > serious bugs, it doesn't get updated. > > I see. I've read Kraft's "Debian System" book several times, but I > hadn't twigged that stable can'

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-12 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 15:06 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: > Hi, I'm new here. > > I've googled extensively for information on how best to run Java > servlets on Debian, and failed to turn up any documents that seem to be > recent, or relevant to the present situation. > > I'm running Sarge, and my sy

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-08 Thread Joe Smith
"MrDemeanour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Vaughan wrote: Debian stable is uh, stable. Except for security bugs or other serious bugs, it doesn't get updated. I see. I've read Kraft's "Debian System" book several times, but I hadn't twigged that stabl

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-06 Thread MrDemeanour
Andrew Vaughan wrote: Debian stable is uh, stable. Except for security bugs or other serious bugs, it doesn't get updated. I see. I've read Kraft's "Debian System" book several times, but I hadn't twigged that stable can't get packages added to it. So if I want to run Tomcat on main, than I

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:45, MrDemeanour wrote: > Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > In Sarge, Tomcat4 shipped in contrib. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Java/ShouldGoToMain states "Works with Kaffe > > 1.1.3 but need non-free JDK to compile (com.sun.* classes)" > > I've seen that page; I couldn't find a

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-06 Thread MrDemeanour
Sorry; my initial repsonse to this went to Andrew, and not the list. Re-posting: Andrew Vaughan wrote: Hi Jack I'm have no experience running servlets, but I am using Java on Debian, and can make a stab at some of your questions. On Sunday 06 August 2006 00:06, MrDemeanour wrote: I'm runnin

Re: FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Jack I'm have no experience running servlets, but I am using Java on Debian, and can make a stab at some of your questions. On Sunday 06 August 2006 00:06, MrDemeanour wrote: > I'm running Sarge, and my system is using the "main" repository. My > preference is for Tomcat, but unless I'm much

FLOSS and servlets: recommendations

2006-08-05 Thread MrDemeanour
Hi, I'm new here. I've googled extensively for information on how best to run Java servlets on Debian, and failed to turn up any documents that seem to be recent, or relevant to the present situation. I'm running Sarge, and my system is using the "main" repository. My preference is for Tomcat, b