The problem as I see it, and it is still a problem even with java6 and prepackaged tomcat installations. Is that Java attempts to replace the OS rather than wor

The problem as I see it, and it is still a problem even with java6 and prepackaged tomcat installations. Is that Java attempts to replace the OS rather than work with it. It should not be a pain in the ass requiring a helper shell script to print the pid of the running process to a file. And I'm sorry, but your code-browser may have a fancy gui for editing your xml configuration files. But I don't want to rely on having a GUI available to me. And reading raw xml even pretty-printed, is annoying. Also, memory and disk space are not infinite; networks are unreliable and slow; and executing binary code dispatched from other machines is a security risk even inside the vpn. If the java community cared about any of this they would have fixed it long ago, but as it is most java apps have a baroque suite of helper tools for deployment and management, and while they spew lots of internal information there seems to be some resistance to having them talk to syslog, and the process is not trivial.