Recommended Java/Tomcat Installation

[C.P. Lim]

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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