Tomcat on port 80 or Java as root

[Rajkumar S <listuser () myrealbox com>]

Hi,

What are the implications of running tomcat as root(ie to run tomcat on 
port 80) Is java secure enough to run as root, or should I run some 
thing like apache in front ?

How about having Tux as a front end? Is it advisable from a security 
point of view?

with warm regards,

raj