Taming the Elusive Tomcat

joeyslopp writes: "Finding documentation on an open source project such as FreeBSD is usually quite easy. In fact, the project relies heavily upon user support. However, tracking down a good article that illustrates how to setup a .jsp (java server pages) environment using Tomcat has been difficult. Devshed came close with their article Slapping Together A JSP Development Environment , but lacked specifics on JDK for FreeBSD -- their article was more specific to Linux. The studs in #freebsd on undernet enlightened me a bit more, but still I lacked concrete documenation. Where can one find descriptive help in setting up Tomcat for FreeBSD? Dun dun dun dun *cheesy superhero theme* Enter Victoria Chan's article seemingly tailor-made for my Tomcat woes. The article, also located here, actually appears on www.freebsd.org as well...imagine that :) Hopefully other newbies to FreeBSD will read this and shorten their search time for a good article on the setup of Tomcat."

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[Raskolnk]

I agree for with the recs for resin and orion, however, I wouldn't stay away from tomcat. IMHO, its very useful for developers to develop in tomcat in diverse environments before moving to a higher performing production environment. That way they can focus on building a proper war format app that should be portable to Resin, Orion, iPlanet, etc. Because Tomcat is supposed to be the reference version, ideally everyone would at least have there app setup and working in it.