On 05/21/2009 09:33 AM, Nalin Savara wrote:
Yes indeed--- no harm trying using the RPM first-- go ahead and give it a
shot.
If it works ; it works.
As a general rule, you should almost never waste your time doing source
installs unless you have nothing better to do - or there is a direct
trust issue with the binary source (1)
I am not sure what distro is being used here, but there are millions of
people who use this sort of a stack on CentOS and the packaged RPMS work
fine for most - look at jpackage.org for a place to start with most Java
related things ( although httpd and tomcat are already included in the
distro and work out of the box - total install time is about 3 minutes )
Just my 2 bits
- KB
(1): there is also the thing about people doing code audits for some
components - but given that almost noone ever does that, its a corner
case generally ignored.
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