perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Michael Bischoff wrote:
> I think what stijn is getting at is that you need a JDK not a JRE.
>
> JRE is a subset of JDK
>
> A perfsonar service is an servlet application.
> A servlet application requires a servlet container.
> A servlet container requires JEE classes -> JDK.
> (I thought the spec demandes a JDK too)
>
> Tomcat requires a JDK to start, so if tomcat is packaged correctly and you 
> depend on tomcat
> you shouldn't need any java dependency there.
>   

Tomcat can also start with GCJ. Sun JDK is not explicitly given as a
dependency, so sun JDK should be defined as a dependency for all
perfsonar packages.

Shame on you Michael ;)

> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tomcat5.5, tomcat5.5-exist
>
> should already implicitly depend on a JDK >5.
>

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