Recommended Java/Tomcat Installation

[Gordon Smith]

CP,

Thank you - I appreciate the info you've given us.  Knowing that the 
"vanilla" releases just plain work is good news.  How long have you had that 
implementation in production?  What kind of apps are you running on Tomcat, 
and what kind of loads are the apps handling?

Has anyone used Java & Tomcat on FreeBSD 6.2 yet (or 6.1)?

Cheers,
Gordon Smith

-----Original Message-----

Hi Gordon,

We use FreeBSD 6.1 with Tomcat 5.5, running on Java 1.5.

For Java 1.5, we just downloaded the latest package from
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.  As to Tomcat 5.5
we just used the ports package (the www/tomcat55 package in /usr/ports).

We've never used Java on Linux compat in production, as we found the
packages provided by the FreeBSD Foundation to be good enough.

Hope that helps.

cheers,
CP

Gordon Smith wrote:
>Now that FreeBSD 6.2 is out, can anyone recommend specific releases of JVM 
>and Tomcat that deliver a really stable and fast (emphasizing stable) J2EE 
>platform on 6.2?  In the absence of such, info about 6.1 would also be 
>greatly appreciated.
>
>I'm also curious about whether I need to consider installing Linux 
>compatability so I can install a Linux-based JVM, vs. the native JVMs now 
>available.  If the Linux compat layer is not needed to achieve a stable 
>environment, that would be great.
>
>I'm happy to RTFM on this, but I can't seem to find info about *version 
>combinations on FreeBSD in specific*, and thus specific ports/packages that 
>may be "production worthy".  If I were to go to the Tomcat website, read 
>the info about the JVM version required for my favorite version of Tomcat 
>and install them both, I might end up with an installation that 
>demonstrates problems specific to the FreeBSD ports, so I want to be 
>careful here.
>
>If I've missed some obvious documentation, I apologize in advance.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Gordon Smith
>
>
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