Hi Andre et al,
I've dealt with a lot of different servers and OSes over the years, and my
'professional' advice to everyone maintaining a java/web application would
be to create a root level directory and install everything they rely on
there and maintain it themselves. This includes especially
This being a Tomcat list, and Tomcat being java, it is rather to be expected that many
people on this list would tend to have a rather Tomcat-specific, and rather Java-specific
view of the world. And the fact that most Linux distributions have their own way of
packaging software, and
