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

[Jerald Sheets]

Any time I'm putting together a Tomcat stack I download the latest stable as recommended by the tomcat_users list and use that, download the latest stable from Sun for Java, and download the latest (and usually compile my own) Apache.  They all get placed into /opt/foo-1.2.3 symlinked to /opt/foo so when foo-1.2.4 comes out, I can stage it and get it all over my environment before "flipping the switch" (i.e., doing a symlink change).

Yes, Puppet removes the need for a lot of that, but it's how I've done it without CFG MGMT in place.

--j


On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:47 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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