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