Tomcat-hell

[thomasww]

Why the hell has every tomcatsupporting tool provide its own copy of the tomcat engine?? I have no less than five
or six copies of the same tomcat build on my machine.

Wouldnt it be better if vendors wrote better installations that 1) checked whether there already is a tomcat installed and 2) installed tomcat if necassary. Or, if this, as I suspect, is a too sophisticated a feature to expect from an open-source project, let the user download and install tomcat on their own.

THomas W

[adrian.brock]

We don't just use Tomcat, we embed it.
This means it has to be in a known place in the directory
tree.
Of course we could ask you to specify the location at
installation.
But are you prepared to answer all the
"Error starting JBoss with Tomcat" questions from newbies?

Regards,
Adrian

[asamoal]

Better yet i point the conf directory to my default tomcat installation conf, then everybody is happy especially me!

Also using cp -u over the old installation from the new build is useful if you know what you are doing.

[adrian.brock]

I was looking for this post, couldn't find it. :-)

From JBoss-3.0beta you can specify the location
of the tomcat in the Tomcat deployment's
jboss-service.xml

Regards,
Adrian