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

[Jim Kinney]

Which is why you need to ue the products and tools that are most likely
going to get the support you need from "upstream" at the time you need
them. If you're using RHEL, they will be the best support you can get as
they can leverage for tomcat5,6 support after apache dumps them.

Default tomcat for RHEL6 is tomcat6


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 14:21 -0400, Scott Plante wrote:
> > Tomcat 7 has been GA for 2.5+ years, and Redhat is still distributing
> > 6? Tomcat 8 is close to release these days. We always use the binaries
> > from Apache because the repositories are too far behind. If we weren't
> > developing our own software, and were just using some packaged product
> > that worked fine with 6 I'd probably feel differently. I'm on both
> > sides of the developer/admin fence though.
>
> This.  I expect TC6 to start moving to EOL within a year.  There just
> aren't enough folks available/interested to maintain that many versions.
>
> And if you ever need support from the Tomcat user list the first thing
> they'll tell you if they sniff out that you're using a non-Apache
> package is to download a "real" Tomcat from Apache and see if you can
> reproduce the problem there.
>
>
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > From: "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com>
> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:40:08 PM
> > Subject: [ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?
> >
> > 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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