Tomcat on Android Samsung Galaxy Tab?

[gianluca marzano]

Hi everybody,
does anybody know if it is possible to install Apache Tomcat (or another servlet container) on a Samsung Galaxy tablet?Any documentation about it?

Thanks in advance!

[Ulf Dittmer]

A quick grep through the Tomcat 6 source code shows that it uses several classes that are not part of Android (like ImageIO and several classes of the java.beans package, and probably others). So it won't work without some effort on your part.

[gianluca marzano]

Thanks for reply Ulf,
and if I install jdk before installing tomcat? Do you think it will work?

[Ulf Dittmer]

You mean install a JDK on the Galaxy? There is no JDK that runs on Android.

Search for "oracle google android lawsuit" or some such phrase to learn about the complications in the mobile Java space.

[Tim Holloway]

Thanks to Oracle's lawyers, it's necessary to observe that Android doesn't run "Java", it runs Dalvik.

Regardless, the Android platform. while more extensive than JME, is still not a 100% implementation of the desktop edition of Java, much less the desktop/enterprise JDK.

It might make an amusing project, but personally, I'd rather see Tomcat on one of the "wall-wart" computers and leave the Galaxy for browsing.

Although I'll admit I'd be tickled if I could run OS/MVS on my cellphone (Project Hercules).

[gianluca marzano]

I have a web application developed using JDK1.6 and Tomcat. I would like to install it on a Galaxy tab and use it stand alone mode, but

I can't install JDK,
I can't install Tomcat....

...is there any other way to do that? or have i to surrend?

[Tim Holloway]

If you are a truly frothing-at-the-mouth geek, you can pull the sources to the open-source JDK system, do a native-code compile, root your Galaxy, and install it as a binary app. However, I still don't have much faith in the open-source Java system, since for a long time it wasn't up to the heavy-duty requirements of J2EE.

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you're not set on Tomcat, then http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/ (a version of the Jetty servlet container for Android) is available.

[gianluca marzano]

I-jetty sounds really good! thank you!!!
Do you know any other servlet container that runs on android?

[Aleksey Serov]

I have Installed i-Jetty on my old Android Dev-1. It runs just fine.
Also I have downloaded and installed a Sample Application ported to Android provided by HybridServerPages.com (HybridJava) and installed it under i-Jetty on Android.
That runs too!