[CentOS] Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6

> I did a yum -y install tomcat5 and tomcat got installed with openjdk. But somehow if I goto http://localhost:8080 I am unable to get to the tomcat default site.
>
> Any insight?

Does netstat show anything listening on 8080?  Do you have a firewall that 
hasn't been adjusted to allow access to port 8080?