[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

[James Sumners]

My problem with the RH provided Tomcat is it depends on OpenJDK. If
you have to worry about support from an application vendor (not RH),
then they are likely requiring the Oracle JDK. Additionally, the last
time I tried to get the Tomcat native libraries to work with RH's
package it was a no-go (had to use the JBoss repos which I don't have
license for).

I do not, however, compile Tomcat from source for my servers. I use
the binary packages available from Apache.

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....
>
> If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services framework
> on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would you:
>
> "yum install tomcat6"
>
> or,
>
> go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray.
>
>
> No, this is not a trick question.    I've always just used the tested
> supplied Redhat version which "just works".  But there are apparently other
> opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy.
>
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
>
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