Re: Servlets, was Re: Various issues: kaffe, compilers, freeness, etc.

["Ean R . Schuessler" <ean@novare.net>]

The servlet.jar in Kaffe will not work. It is only a shell. There is another
LGPL implementation that was written by Paul Siegmann and Mark Wielaard. It
is available at: http://www.euronet.nl/~pauls/java/servlet

I have been able to get this working with Kaffe and JServ. It was not easy,
per se, but not difficult. You definatly must run JServ in the "manual"
mode. I created an /etc/init.d script to start it seperatly. I have
actually been using this configuration with the Postgres driver and the
"Webslinger" project we have been building to create very sophisticated
web-database applications. There is also a completely free EJB implementation
available from Bull that includes their transaction monitor. The combination
of these components allows for an "Enterprise" level web development
environment that is comparable in power, if not ease of use, to any
proprietary package out there.

E

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> "Ean R . Schuessler" wrote:
> 
> > Firstly, I'd like to address the notion that you can't do anything
> > useful without commercial Java on your system. This seems patently
> > false. For instance, it is perfectly possible to run Servlets under
> > Apache without using one lick of Java code. Servlets are arguably one
> > of the areas where Java has achieved a great deal of acceptance.
> 
> I just checked kaffe-snap from 25-Jul-1999 and all vital functions in
> servlet.jar just throw a kaffe.util.NotImplemented exception. I tried to
> make Apache-JServ work with kaffe (or at least servlet.jar from kaffe
> with Sun´s JDK - so the user doesn´t have to download jsdk.jar from Sun)
> when I took over maintenance from Phil Hands in May 1999 but failed. :-(
> 
> Could you please tell me how to get servlets working without a non-free
> Java implementation? Whenever someone asked, I always recommended IBM´s
> JDK port which is even faster than Blackdown´s JDK with TYA.
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Gybas
> 

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