On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:55, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> Have any of you installed Tomcat as part of a web server?
> I have been sort of asked to look at this at work, it appears
> to be part of the RH Enterprise server, this is really new
> ground for me, but if I can pull it off that will make LINUX
> just that much more attractive at my work place, and give MS
> one more little push off to one side (alas out the door will
> probably not happen due to the amount of MS at the client
> sites, but just being able to offer a alternative to MS is
> great in my books)
Installing Tomcat is extremely easy. You grab the JDK from
javasoft.com, grab the tomcat bin tar file from jakarta.apache.org,
extract and run.
It's configuring it and writing code so it will do anything useful
that's much harder and pretty much requires that someone is familiar
with JSP/Servlet programming.
I guess what I'm saying is "has anyone installed Tomcat?" is a lot like
asking "has anyone installed Linux?" Sure. It's easy to install if you
buy a RedHat boxed set at CompUSA and stick CD1 in the drive, but then
you want to make it do what you want it to do and you realize there's
more to it than that.
What exactly is it you're trying to accomplish? If you're looking for a
servlet container, Tomcat is great, and works well either standalone
(has a basic web listener built-in) or by using the mod_tomcat module
for apache if you need more advanced web service along with a servlet
engine.
If you're looking for J2EE or other "Enterprise-class" Java application
environment, I highly recommend JBoss (www.jboss.org) as a fantastic
J2EE environment. It's literally "Best of class" having won awards over
commercial offerings like IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic. Oh yeah,
and it's all open-source and freely-available, like so many good things
in life. :) It also includes Tomcat as its servlet environment.
However JBoss, being orders of magnitude more powerful and featuriffic
than Tomcat, is also orders of magnitude more complex to get configured
and running anything useful.
Of course, once you're familiar with both, "orders of magnitude" doesn't
mean a whole lot because it's really pretty simple to get Tomcat doing
useful things -- once you're familiar with it.
Tomcat and JBoss, in this context, are both answers looking for a
question; the question being, "what are you trying to run that needs
something like Tomcat?"
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