> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bill Barker wrote: > > > IMHO, beyond Pier's and Remy's requirements, this will never fly in the real > > world. I don't see any way that you are going to convince webmasters > > (including me) to relax the sandbox enough to allow this. > > Bill, this solution is what all servlet container are doing ( except > tomcat ). Look at any servlet container that runs on port 80 on unix, and > you'll find a small JNI library that change the user id. > > For tomcat3.x - we don't need that too much because it's far better to > start as non-root from the beginning, and use a real web server on 80. > But assuming we would want to, I'm not sure 'deamon' would work without > major modifications in tomcat ( to implement its model ), and I'm not > sure how many other applications will fit the model, and I'm > not sure I want to make the 'daemon' a requirement. I like > the sourceforge's wrapper a lot, that's what I would use, > and I know many other solutions in use for starting and keeping > java programms alive that don't impose such requirements.
I didn't write either APIs. Someone on the commons mentioned this project, so I went there. It seems to me that omitting the 'init' method is a glaring omission. The native part of the code looks miles ahead of damon's code, though :) The project looks inactive, so maybe it would be possible to talk to the authors and merge ? Eventually, this could end up as a top level project at Jakarta (seems useful enough functionality for me). Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
