From: John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: [CentOS] Java+Tomcat on CentOS 6.x
So whats good practice for installing Java/JDK and Tomcat for EL6 these days? The base repository included Tomcat6.6 is built with GCJ which I'd rather avoid. I'm fine with using OpenJDK ... Do most folks just use the Apache tarball for Tomcat and install it in a user directory or /opt/something ?
-- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
---------------- We still like our customers to use the Oracle / Sun JDK, and the Apache tarball.
Our ops people recommend putting it all in /usr/local/ourcompany. /opt is probably a better place.
OpenJDK for Java 6 has issues, and I / we don't trust Java 7 of any flavor yet.
Tomcat 7 is good.
John Kienitz