>From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> >To: CentOS mailing list <centos at 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