Tomcat5 on RHEL AS3? Has *ANYBODY* managed to install this <censored> package?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:
> I haven't figured out how RedHat handles java yet, so I downloaded 
Sun's
> JDK and installed it in /opt/j2sdk-1.4.2_04, made a symbolic link from
> /usr/java to /opt/j2sdk-1.4.2_04, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable
> to /usr/java, appended /usr/java/bin to my path, downloaded and
> installed the tomcat binary and ran it. I've actually done quite a bit
> more tweaking, but I believe this should get you started.
> 
> Like I said, I haven't found much information or had much luck with the
> RedHat installed java or tomcat.
> 
> Lloyd
> 
Well, after several hours of pulling out my hair, I've gotten it working.  
However, considering how many people are doing this, and how much we've 
paid for RHEL AS, I'm *very* surprised that RH hasn't worked out a deal 
with Sun and Apache-Jakarta to have these included in the base.  After 
all, RH is *supposed* to be value-added in that they provide packaging 
services, no?

Oh, well, that's probably my lack of sleep from last night talking. :)

I'd have probably finished a lot earlier if I hadn't taken the side-road 
of trying to get jpackage working. hehe

Thanks, all!

Ben