If you write servlets instead of JSPs I would assume that you can get away
with only using the JRE instead of the full JDK. I've never tried it myself
though. I see that RUNNING.TXT says to download the JDK though. That could
be because they're assuming that you're setting up a development environment
though.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony T Matsushita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Question from a relatively new user: Minimizing the installation
footprint of Tomcat
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an embedded system using Linux as the OS. My group is
> currently evaluating technologies to use as a front end to our
> configuration software and would like a Web front-end. We're evaluating
> JSP versus Perl / CGI (maybe embPerl).
>
> I was wondering how to minimize Tomcat's installation for deployment after
> we have developed our web-application (all the html and jsp pages and
> supporting classes and beans would be finalized). Is Java SDK 1.3 really
> necessary to run Tomcat. Can we have a Java Runtime Environment installed
> instead? (I'm guessing that Tomcat might use something in SDK 1.3 to
> complie it's JSP pages into Servlets)
>
> I need to get the footprint to be under 30 MB total, hopefully well under
> that if possible. I was wondering if this is at all attainable, and if
> anyone has any comments or suggestions?
>
> Thanks! -Anthony
>
