Hi,
We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the distribution.
As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever is appropriate.
My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore with CentOS?
Do you run some JBoss/WildFly instead or still running Tomcat?
And, how do you install/manage those installations. Do you have RPM packaged versions or fiddle with tarballs?
Since this is a quite standard setup for web apps I'm really wondering how everybody is doing it these days?
Anybody care to comment? I can't believe nobody's running Java servlet containers on CentOS since it's a very common way to provide webservices.
I've just checked our FreeBSD box and it provides:
root@freebsd:~ # pkg search tomcat tomcat-native-1.2.23 Tomcat native library tomcat7-7.0.92 Open-source Java web server by Apache, 7.x branch tomcat85-8.5.54 Open-source Java web server by Apache, 8.5.x branch tomcat9-9.0.34 Open-source Java web server by Apache, 9.0.x branch tomcat-devel-10.0.0.M4 Open-source Java web server by Apache, 10.0.x branch
root@freebsd:~ # pkg search wildfly wildfly90-9.0.2_2 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly10-10.1.0_2 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly11-11.0.0_1 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly12-12.0.0_1 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly13-13.0.0_1 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly14-14.0.1 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly15-15.0.1 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly16-16.0.0 Replacement for JBoss Application Server wildfly17-17.0.1 WildFly is a Java Jakarta EE8 application server developed by Red Hat wildfly18-18.0.1 WildFly is a Java Jakarta EE8 application server developed by Red Hat
Additionally there are also packages of Geronimo and Glassfish as alternatives.
If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already exist.
Regards, Simon