JSP redistribution

[Cudabean]

We have developed a product that uses JSP. Right now, we ship it with JDK1.3. I was looking at the Sun License agreement and it says that it prohibits bundling the JDK with any other product, Oops! So if our customers want it, they've got to get it themselves.

However, Sun *does* allow you to bundle in their JRE.

Question: If I create an installation that bundles only the JRE, will JSP work? The reason I suspect that JSP might not work is because JSP's are compiled and therefore would need the JDK. Anybody have any ideas?

thx

cudabean

[CaptainPinko]

Originally posted by Cudabean
The reason I suspect that JSP might not work is because JSP's are compiled and therefore would need the JDK

if something is already compiled why would it need the JDK? the JRE is like the JDK minus the stuff for compiling so why would you need anything else?

[Cudabean]

Thanks for the response. I stated that wrong. What I should have said is:

The reason I suspect that JSP might not work is because JSP's are compiled on the fly after every change and therefore would need the JDK

[Cudabean]

I think I've resolved this. If you don't anticipate any of your jsp's changing, you can precompile them before distributing using a program called jspc.

cudabean