Costin, You can invoke Tomcat's main() directly. commons-launcher.jar is only required for the Launcher. The Launcher is really only a substitute for the old shell scripts. Ultimately, the Launcher uses reflection to invoke Tomcat's main() method.
So, commons-launcher.jar is only a dependency if you want to distribute the catalina.[sh|bat] scripts in that are in the bin directory. If you are embedding Tomcat 5 (like Sun does with J2EE), you do not need commons-launcher.jar at all. Or, if you want to ship Tomcat with your own customized scripts (like Sun does with JWSDP), you do not need commons-launcher.jar either. Hope that clears things up, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Patrick Luby wrote: > > >>Costin, >> >>Remy can probably comment on the commons-daemon.jar dependency. However, >>the commons-launcher.jar dependency is required for the scripts in the >>bin directory. > > > Can you expand a bit ? > > Catalina itself should't depend on any of those - it should be possible > to start it ( or embed it ) by just calling main(). > > If we want to use commons-daemon or launcher - that's fine, but that > shouldn't require deps - launcher or daemon can use introspection. > > My 'favorite' method of starting will be JMX - I know one application > that will use ant tasks to start tomcat, etc. I see no reason to > have hard deps on any of those. > > > Costin > > > >>Patrick >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Would it be possible to remove the dependency on Daemon ? >>> >>>I see no reason why Daemon couldn't use introspection to call >>>start/stop/destroy. >>> >>> >>>Costin >>> >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ________________________________________________________________ Patrick Luby Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Phone: 408-276-7471 901 San Antonio Road, USCA14-303 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 ________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
