[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

[Wolf Halton]

If you have to be PCI-compliant. Redhat is probably the vendor you want the
auditors to see here.
RedHat is always behind all the upstream projects.

If you have more than a handful of servers, homogenize your servees as much
as you can.  Hand-rolled source is great for test boxes, but impossible to
maintain at scale.

Wolf Halton
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On Aug 12, 2013 2:26 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> RHEL Tomcat will work just fine with Oracle JDK. You just have to do the
> alternatives song-n-dance to make it the default. So install the OpenJDK
> AND Oracle and make sure you block further updates to OpenJDK in yum/RHN.
> Be ready to unblock if a security patch for tomcat calls for an updated
> tomcat which wil then force the OpenJDK to update and likely force
> alternatives back to openJDK from Oracle.
>
> Good luck getting a Non-RedHat vendor to code with OpenJDK.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> My problem with the RH provided Tomcat is it depends on OpenJDK. If
>> you have to worry about support from an application vendor (not RH),
>> then they are likely requiring the Oracle JDK. Additionally, the last
>> time I tried to get the Tomcat native libraries to work with RH's
>> package it was a no-go (had to use the JBoss repos which I don't have
>> license for).
>>
>> I do not, however, compile Tomcat from source for my servers. I use
>> the binary packages available from Apache.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>> > Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....
>> >
>> > If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services
>> framework
>> > on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would you:
>> >
>> > "yum install tomcat6"
>> >
>> > or,
>> >
>> > go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray.
>> >
>> >
>> > No, this is not a trick question.    I've always just used the tested
>> > supplied Redhat version which "just works".  But there are apparently
>> other
>> > opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy.
>> >
>> > Neal Rhodes
>> > MNOP Ltd
>> >
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