Comment 10 for bug 212521

Matti:

Of course, that's just a workaround until my fix is ready. Without modifying the init script, sun-java6-jdk is one of the few packages that will make it work...

The final fix will accept any of the java2-runtime-headless providers, including the preferred openjdk-6-jre-headless. Apparently once the initscript is fixed tomcat5.5 works very well with a headless JRE (rather than a full JDK), thanks to the use of libecj-java as the JSP compiler.

I'm including other fixes taken from my tomcat6 packages to improve the average tomcat5.5 usage experience and that should be ready for testing soon !