[ajug-members] CentOS or FreeBSD for Tomcat on production ?

[Robert Gash]

I think the crucial issue with FreeBSD and Java is the absence of an
official Sun port of the JVM.  Not only does this complicate reporting
bugs/issues that you may encounter, but it also means a much longer delay
for patches or new releases.  For example, the newest FreeBSD JDK release is
only 1.5.0, whereas you have much greater choice with Linux (Sun, IBM,
JRockit).

Secondly, I've always been a big fan of the JPackage project (jpackage.org).
They package almost every JVM, library, or tool, you can imagine in nice
cross-platform RPMs, which can be updated using up2date/yum, etc.  Obviously
this may not be for you, but it makes keeping up to date with the latest
changes extraordinarily easy (and fast).  Plus, things like Tomcat are
automatically and fully integrated into the init system, and have
RedHat/CentOS-ified configurations (stored in /etc).

I know FreeBSD's ports system may provide similar capabilities, but it is
not nearly as smooth as JPackage is.  A cursory check showed that the
FreeBSD Tomcat 5.5 port is several revisions behind the latest release,
where JPackage typically updates within a week of release, sometimes less.

-R

On 6/7/07, Igor Tovstopyat-Nelip <igor.tn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to make a decision on a platform to host a web app. It's Global Net
> Access hosting provider and default choices for OS are CentOS and FreeBSD.
> RedHat is possible too but it is extra stretch. I never deployed Tomcat or
> anything more complicated on neither of these two.
>
> Does anybody has an experience of production deployment of Tomcat (with
> Apache front end) on either CentOS or FreeBSD? What is easier and better
> maintainable? As I know, CentOS is some port of RedHat, so I would not
> expect that to be a problem, but anyway would like to hear from the
> community.
>
> Thank you,
> Igor
>
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