RE: Question regarding jsp comilation and licensing

I did find out that we could use the IBM Jikes (tm) compiler, as it is open
source.  I am checking with Sun, so far trying to contact them by phone has
been unsuccesful (left two unreturned messages) attempting to contact them
by e-mail now. 

Thanks for the input.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: Yves Lafon [mailto:ylafon@w3.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:50 AM
To: Manty, George
Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Subject: Re: Question regarding jsp comilation and licensing


On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Manty, George wrote:

> I have implemented JSP in our product, which uses Jigsaw 2.0.4.  I
> implemented it using GNUJSP and was planning on switching to Tomcat when
the
> next stable version of Jjigsaw is released.  
> 
> It appears to me as though in order to release a prodcut with Jigsaw and
JSP
> support you have to get an OEM license from Sun to use the tools.jar file.
> Is this true or is there another compiler you can use that would be free
to
> distribute?

It should depend on the JSP engine used, but tools.jar is unfortunately
not in the jre, so I guess you should ask Sun, or check the other Jsp
engines (Tomcat, resin and others).
Hope this helps,

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