[fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth
>Porter
>Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:07 PM
>To: Fedora Java Development List (E-mail)
>Subject: RE: [fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat
>
>
>--On Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:44 AM -0800 "Daniel B. Thurman" 
><dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
>
>> lsof -i | grep tomcat revealed port 8005 but there is nothing there
>>
>> I looked at /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out (logfile) and it says
>> that it started at port 8080.  OK...  that is good news.  I ran
>> the web-browser and apparently it runs forever - showing nothing
>> and spinning it's wheels...
>
>I think the root-run version listens on both those ports by default. I 
>think 8005 was the JK2 connector to Apache and 8080 is the web content 
>port. (Been awhile since I messed with Tomcat.)
>
>Without the "-i", lsof (list open files) reports all regular 
>files, and can 
>be used to locate what files a process is actively using. You can also 
>strace a process to see what it opens over time. (Redirect 
>output to a file 
>and filter aggressively as an strace log gets huge fast.)
>
>Look up-thread for how to get Eclipse to run a private copy of Tomcat.
>
>

Ken,

Please note that I am NOT flaming you.  Just the person/team that
provided the Tomcat "port" for Fedora.  They should be flamed badly.

I have pretty much given up trying to get tomcat running with Fedora's
version.  It seems that there are just too many problems with this
version - and this was stated in several sites talking about it.

I have downloaded tomcat binaries from apache's website, installed it in
/usr/local directory, chown tomcat:tomcat the tomcat-5.5.12 directory
and simply ran /usr/bin/dtomcat and tomcat started up with no errors as
far as I can see.  Finally - I can now see tomcat's index.jsp and my own
index.html file in my web browser.

I believe whomever created this tomcat version for Fedora has got
some explaining to do.  This is a horrible piece of junk, horrible
waste of my time, and files moved all over the place that is it a
major cause of confusion which departs from apache's standard
configuration and installation.  Heck, I cannot even simply define
JAVA_HOME and find the binaries!!!  Sheesh!!

If anyone can point me to ONE definitive installation guide/faq that
explains PRECISELY how to get tomcat running on FC4 from the original
distro - please do!  Nothing I tried so far even works!  Yes, I got
tomcat to "run" with a LOT OF WASTED TIME, and I was not able to get
past the tomcat-user.xml file where it is trying to copy *some original
file* to tomcat-user.xml.old and this causes *something* to throw an 
exception and on top of that fails to locate or serve any pages.  It
just spins it's wheels forever.

I just cannot understand why Eclipse w/ Tomcat fails out of the box.
This whole thing reminds me of M$ announcing a product when the product
is not close to working just prevent customers from buying someone else's
brand.

Sheesh - what a piece of ****!

Now... I have yet to get Eclipse to work in conjunction with Tomcat.
We'll see how THAT goes....

Dan

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