Emerging Tomcat without Eclipse

Hi,

I am trying to install the Tomcat server (specifically
www-servers/tomcat-8.0.30:8::gentoo).
However, it depends on eclipse-ecj -- I am unsure of the reasoning
behind this, but it is quite annoying because emerging this would
bring in X and many other unwated packages.

Is there a way to install Tomcat 8 without Eclipse? I did not see a
USE flag for this.

Thanks