> Neither Ant nor Tomcat follow this approach. Tomcat's an application, not a library, so their requirements are very different. A user is extremely unlikely to install two competing versions of Tomcat on their system at once. Thus, I looked only at libraries. Ant is an interesting one, since it's primarily a library, but packages itself like an application. If we recommended "installing" pivot, as Ant does, then I would consider this a valida argument. However, I don't think we make sure a recommendation.
> The user agent in this case is the Java plugin itself, which, to my > knowledge, doesn't cache JARs in releases earlier than J6u10. If not, then disregard this argument. The standardization argument, and its implications on Maven and Linux distributions, is the crux of my argument.
