> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Birchall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:55 AM
> To: Tomcat-User
> Subject: Using Tomcat without JDK
>
>
> Does anyone know if its possible to use Tomcat with just the
> JRE rather than the JDK?
Yes. If you don't use JSP (or precompile all your JSPs into servlets) you
can distribute the JRE and Tomcat will work fine.
>
> Because of licensing restrictions with distributing the Sun JDK,
> we would like to distribute our servlet application with the JRE only.
>
> I have tried to run Tomcat with the JRE rather than the JDK by setting
> JAVA_HOME to the JRE home directory. When I run Tomcat and try to load
> our startup servlet in the browser I get:
> "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet"
>
> Our servlets are in jar files in <TOMCAT_HOME>\lib. We use
> servlets only, not JSP.
> We are running Tomcat 3.2.3 on Win2000.
>
> Does anyone know why Tomcat fails to find the HttpServlet?
1. If you set your JAVA_HOME back to a JDK does Tomcat work fine
again? If so its probably due to some jar files being in the
JAVA_HOME/lib/ext directory on one and not the other.
2. If not #1 then you probably want to check your TOMCAT_HOME/lib
and verify that the servlet.jar file is there.
3. If not #1 and #2 then post again with values for JAVA_HOME and
TOMCAT_HOME and we'll see where we can go from there.
Randy
>
> Thanks
> Andy Birchall
>
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