[ajug-members] Java crash with Tomcat

[Chris Fowler]

Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Chris,
>      You aren't by chance using a Tomcat package prepared by CentOS,  
> are you?  I ask because in the GNU/Linux packaging world, packages  
> will often be built using Free (as in freedom AND beer) runtimes for  
> Java, and you can occasionally have odd things happen when said  
> package runs on the Sun JVMs.  If this is your scenario, I'd recommend  
> a manual install of the appropriate Tomcat binary from Apache and see  
> if you observe any difference.  That way, you can rule out the Tomcat  
> you are using.
>      I have also observed the JPackage team (those who package lots of  
> Java stuff for the RedHat free alternatives, including CentOS)  
> *omitting* certain classes which were problematic to have compile on  
> Free runtimes.  When I was the Debian Lucene maintainer, people kept  
> griping at me for how long it was taking, saying that JPackage had it  
> for months ahead of me.  For kicks, I learned the basics of RPM  
> formats and unpacked their Lucene package.
>      They had omitted the one class that had been giving me fits.  It  
> was the one RMI class in Lucene at the time :-).
>
> Regards,
> Barry
>   

Actually no, we don't do that.  We create or compile all packages needed 
for the software and install in /opt.  We compile perl from stable.  We 
download java from sun.  In our case we downloaded the tomcat binaries 
instead of source.