[fedora-java] Should java-1.4.2-gcj-compat require xerces-j2?

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Nicolas,

>>>slippy:[~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides jndi-ldap
>>>ldapjdk-4.17-1jpp_2fc
>>>      
>>>
>>OK, thanks, but this still doesn't look required to build tomcat5, but I
>>think that some part of tomcat5 wants an ldap service provider to run.
>>    
>>
>It's very possible the ldap is only there for compliance with some spec,
>and tomcat code has no use for it.
>  
>
Tomcat supports many Realms (that's how it names the classes that 
implements this) for authentication. You can authenticate from a XML 
file (an passwd file in disguise), from a SQL Database and from a LDAP 
directory. That's the only use of LDAP for Tomcat AFAIK. So you can run 
Tomcat without LDAP support, but you'll miss this option. It could well 
be extracted to a separate package, and just this package should depend 
on a jndi-ldap provider. The internal jndi service bundled with tomcat 
(for defining datasources and environment) does not need ldap.


[]s, Fernando Lozano