[fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:57 PM -0800 "Daniel B. Thurman" 
<dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:

> 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!!

Agreed, but this is unlikely to be Fedora-specific. More likely the 
repackaging is done to make the system comply with LSB/FHS, which Sun 
ignores. Even Microsoft has packaging guidelines and recommended 
directories that application developers routinely ignore. (It's easy to do 
so when everyone runs as administrator.)

> It seems that there are just too many problems with this
> version - and this was stated in several sites talking about it.

Rather than "curse the dark", it's in everyone's best interest that those 
who identify concrete faults go to bugzilla and "light a candle". Did any 
of those sites provide bug numbers?