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Re: trying to run Tomcat

Per Bothner writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Per Bothner writes:
 > >  > I'm a bit surprised.  If the tomcat package (say) installed pre-compiled 
 > >  > classes it would seem like it assumes a specific version of java - and 
 > >  > perhaps a specific version of gcj.
 > > 
 > > Why?  I don't see why it should.  
 > 
 > Well, if the package really is pre-compiled then it will inherently 
 > depend gcj rather than jdk.

No it won't, because all the precompiled jpackage-style packages also
include the jar files.  We have to do thath because of te way some
apps open the jar files and use their own class loaders.  So, these
packages are still VM agnostic.

Andrew.
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