Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:07:04PM +0100, Gary Benson wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > error: could not find jta Java extension for this JVM > > > > This is rawhide tomcat5 I'm guessing. It'll get fixed the next > > time I rebuild the tomcat5 rpm. It doesn't matter if you're > > using libgcj. > > Nope, it's what shipped with FC4. tomcat5-5.0.30-5jpp_6fc. Very odd. Are you using the rawhide java-1.4.2-gcj-compat? What does "rpm -q java-1.4.2-gcj-compat" say on your box? > > > I notice that /var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/[jta].jar -> > > > /could/not/find/extension/for/this/jvm, which is a cute way > > > of telling me that the symlink is broken. OK, what should > > > this link point to? > > > > /usr/share/java/jta.jar > > > > You need to install the latest geronimo-specs-compat to get it. > > Odd that a package that shipped w/ FC4 is dependent on a package > that didn't. It shouldn't. In FC4 (and rawhide until recently) jta was provided by java-1.4.2-gcj-compat. A couple of weeks ago it was changed to come from geronimo-specs-compat, to make switching JVMs work properly. > Pulled in & installed those two. "service tomcat5 start" now > works. Looks like the manager is home at > http://taltos.localdomain:8080/manager/html. Cool. > At http://taltos.localdomain:8080 I get a white screen of death, > which makes sense as there is nothing in $CATALINA_HOME except > the balancer directory. Sounds like you don't have tomcat5-webapps installed... > > > I have installed Sun's jvm via the jpackage proceedure. > > > > You didn't need to ;) > > > > > Do I need Sun's jdk in order to develop servlets? > > > > No, you can do it with gcj. > > Cool. I took it out. Nice work ;) Gary