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Matt Rudderham wrote:
> alex bustamante wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to serve .jsp's with jakarta. Read somewhere that compiling the 
>> jdk
>> and getting it to work with jakarta isn't the eaysiest thing to do. Is
>> Linux prefered for this task, or will i do better with FreeBSD?
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
> We regularly compile Jakarta/Tomcat from ports without any issues.

I think the difficulty comes primarily from compiling Java.  You need
to manually fetch a couple of pieces and go through the Sun registration
dance.  But after that, it's pretty smooth.

Scott