RE: Tomcat on port 80 or Java as root

[Marc Deglos <md () nomensa com>]

>>What are the implications of running tomcat as root(ie to run tomcat 
on port 80)

The use of the word 'root' is misleading - IMO, this reference to 'root' 
does not correlate to the root user.

The question seems to be:
"What are the implications of allowing web traffic to connect directly 
to Tomcat, instead of through apache?"

//Marc.