Thanks Alan. We’re not going to be able to upgrade to Java 8 because IBM hasn’t delivered a JDK 8.X for AIX 7.1 (Yes, we’re running our DSpace production AIX). We’ll have to look at this more closely.
Thanks, Jeff Jeffrey Trimble, MLS William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) [email protected] http://www.maag.ysu.edu http://digital.maag.ysu.edu On 12/7/16, 1:47 PM, "Alan Orth" <[email protected]> wrote: >First, whatever you do, make sure you're using the Java 8 JDK, because >Solr developers recommend it for Solr 4.x and 5.x[0]. As for the >Tomcat version, we run with Tomcat 7, but only because there were >early issues with Tomcat 8 on DSpace 5.x[1], though those might have >been fixed by now (search the Jira). Lastly, Tomcat 8.0.x was >superseded by Tomcat 8.5 by the Tomcat project[2], so if you're going >to pick a Tomcat 8 to run on, I'd try to make it 8.5.x. Ubuntu 16.04 >(a long-term support release) ships 8.0.x for some reason, even though >upstream support was supposed to end in September, 2016! > >Cheers, > >[0] https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ShawnHeisey >[1] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3092 >[2] https://tomcat.apache.org/ > >On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Jeffrey A Trimble <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Would anyone like to share their experience using Tomcat 8 with Dspace >>5.X >> or Dspace 6.X? I’m looking at using Tomcat 8 simply because it uses >>Java 7 >> ― how convenient ― and I don’t have to monkey around with the Tomcat >> settings. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeffrey Trimble, MLS >> William F. Maag Library >> Youngstown State University >> 330.941.2483 (Office) >> [email protected] >> http://www.maag.ysu.edu >> http://digital.maag.ysu.edu >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>Groups >> "DSpace Technical Support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > >-- >Alan Orth >[email protected] >https://englishbulgaria.net >https://alaninkenya.org >https://mjanja.ch >"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." ―Friedrich Nietzsche >GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
