Servlet container, any tips?

[Cpt (aka Cor Takken)]

For my work (and out of interest) I want to do some R&D on
Java-teritory, and for that I would like to have some means of running
J2EE stuff on my server. I am thinking about setting up a servlet
container on my Slackware server. An application server would be too
much (since what I want can be established using Spring), and vanilla
Apache server is no good.

However, since Slackware doesn't come prepackaged with an app server
(nor servlet container) I would like to know if there is anybody out
there who has experience (and of whom I might learn any hints and tips)
with servlet containers (and are there more available than Tomcat)?

At the moment my system is on 11.0, but in the future (hopefully a not
too long future) one of the later flavours (like 12.x) is planned.

Thanks for the time,

Cor

[Miguel De Anda]

What's wrong with tomcat? If you have trouble setting it up, look at my
startup/shutdown script (below). Just remove the "jdpa" part if this is not
for development/debugging. I run tomcat as a normal user so you may need to
modify the path to tomcat as well.

$cat `which tomcat`
#!/bin/sh

tomcat_start() {
echo " ===== Starting tomcat with debugging enabled ===== "
JAVA_OPTS="-server" ~/install/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh jpda start
}

tomcat_stop() {
PID=`ps aux | grep java | grep tomcat | awk '{ print $2 }'`
if [ "" != "$PID" ]; then
~/install/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
for loop in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
if [ "" == "`ps --no-heading --pid $PID`" ]; then
break
fi
sleep 1
done
if [ "" != "`ps --no-heading --pid $PID`" ]; then
echo kill -s 9 $PID
kill -s 9 $PID
echo Sent signal 9 to tomcat process
else
echo Tomcat properly stopped
fi
else
echo Tomcat not running
fi
}

tomcat_restart() {
tomcat_stop
tomcat_start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
tomcat_start
;;
'stop')
tomcat_stop
;;
'restart')
tomcat_restart
;;
*)
tomcat_restart
esac

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[Cpt (aka Cor Takken)]

Miguel De Anda wrote:
[snip]

>
> What's wrong with tomcat? If you have trouble setting it up, look at my
> startup/shutdown script (below). Just remove the "jdpa" part if this is not
> for development/debugging. I run tomcat as a normal user so you may need to
> modify the path to tomcat as well.

[snip usefull startscript]

> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Oh I didn't say that there is anything wrong with tomcat, I was just
wondering if there are alternatives.
Thanks for the script, I will surely use it.

Cor