Tomcat-user's.
There have been a lot of messages dealing with difficulty in set up and
such. It has always taken be 20 minutes or less to get Tomcat working,
most of it works right from distribution, (BTW I'm on W2K). As of March
20th, SUN has made an early release of the Java Web Services Pack which
marries Ant and Tomcat together and provides an deployment tool to make
deployment easier. I've used it pretty extensively and for a early
release version, it's fantastic. It makes web.xml mostly mindless to
build. It does deployment very well.
http://java.sun.com/webservices/downloads/webservicespack.html
I think it uses tomcat 4.1 and Ant 1.4.1 and is currently available for
the following platforms;
* SolarisTM 2.8
* Windows 2000, Professional Edition
* Windows XP, Professional Edition
* RedHat Linux 7.2
It works really well, install is just a click away and it installs ANT
and Tomcat.
Oh.. Well, maybe not a click, you have to set 3 environment variables;
CATALINA_HOME (if you don't know what this is see the tomcat docs.)
JAVA_HOME (should already be set)
JWSDP_HOME (should be same as CATALINA_HOME)
It's really easy to use and works great using Tomcat. Give it a shot.
- John
