binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Hi, i'm fairly new to tomcat. We have a SLES 10 SP4 64bit host, running Tomcat 5.5, which was provided as a rpm from the distributor. Our developers need now a more current version, 6 or prefered 7. I didn't find rpm's for these versions for my OS. So i have to install the binary version from

RE: binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Piotr Pawłowski
Hi Bernd, I think, that the best solution is to 'install' Tomcat manually from binaries available on Tomcat project. I do not use repositories on my CentOS/Debian machines, because Tomcat versions available there are a bit outdated (I need 7.X while in official repos you will not find such).

Re: binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bernd, On 6/20/13 12:45 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: i'm fairly new to tomcat. We have a SLES 10 SP4 64bit host, running Tomcat 5.5, which was provided as a rpm from the distributor. Our developers need now a more current version, 6 or prefered 7.

Re: Tomcat 6.x leak with WSS4J library

2013-06-20 Thread Jose María Zaragoza
Thanks you very much, Christopher : 1) Finally - -Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE_CLEAR_REFERENCES=false worked for me, but I want to find out the root cause for leaking. I afraid to accelerate OOM in PermGen with many redeploys 2) Perhaps a container-loaded component

Re: binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Mark Thomas
On 20/06/2013 19:22, Christopher Schultz wrote: Bernd, On 6/20/13 12:45 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: i'm fairly new to tomcat. We have a SLES 10 SP4 64bit host, running Tomcat 5.5, which was provided as a rpm from the distributor. Our developers need now a more current version, 6 or prefered

Re: binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Stefan Mayr
Hi Bernd, Am 20.06.2013 18:45, schrieb Lentes, Bernd: Hi, i'm fairly new to tomcat. We have a SLES 10 SP4 64bit host, running Tomcat 5.5, which was provided as a rpm from the distributor. Our developers need now a more current version, 6 or prefered 7. I didn't find rpm's for these versions

Re: binary distribution - how to upgrade ?

2013-06-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 6/20/13 3:47 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 20/06/2013 19:22, Christopher Schultz wrote: Once you have set up the environment for CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE, it's fairly simple to upgrade to a new version of Tomcat: 1. Install the new