Yoav Shapira wrote:
There's also another reason: if we use JDT then we don't require users
to have the complete JDK, only a JRE. This is a big deal (perhaps
even more important than the technical / performance benefits) from a
licensing perspective, especially for people who repackage /
redistribute Tomcat as part of their products.
<nitpick>
The Sun JDK license terms explicitly state that "tools.jar" is
redistributable along with the JRE. So technically, that shouldn't be a
reason for including the JDT.
On the other hand, I can see (a) convenience (using unmodified JRE
distributions with Tomcat), (b) performance (JDT's compiler is
supposedly faster), etc., as good reasons for including it.
From java/jre/README.txt:
...
Redistribution of Java2 SDK Files.
The limited set of files from the SDK listed below may be included in
vendor redistributions of the Java 2 Runtime Environment. All paths
are relative to the top-level directory of the SDK.
...
- The javac bytecode compiler, consisting of the following files:
bin/javac [Solaris(TM) Operating Environment
and Linux]
bin/sparcv9/javac [Solaris Operating Environment
(SPARC(TM) Platform Edition)]
bin/javac.exe [Microsoft Windows]
lib/tools.jar [All platforms]
...
</nitpick>
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