In our case, it is because all our other applications are deployed on Tomcat and ops is familiar with the deployment process. We also had customizations that needed to go in, so we inserted our custom JAR into the solr.war's WEB-INF/lib directory, so to ops the process of deploying Solr was (almost, except for schema.xml or solrconfig.xml changes) identical to any of the other apps. But I think if Solr becomes a server with clearly defined extension points (such as dropping your custom JARs into lib/ and custom configuration in conf/solrconfig.xml or similar like it already is) then it will be treated as something other than a webapp and the expectation that it runs on Tomcat will not apply.
Just my $0.02... Sujit On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Siegfried Goeschl <sgoes...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hi ALex, > > in my case > > * ignorance that Tomcat is not fully supported > * Tomcat configuration and operations know-how inhouse > * could migrate to Jetty but need approved change request to do so > > Cheers, > > Siegfried Goeschl > > On 12.11.13 04:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I keep seeing here and on Stack Overflow people trying to deploy Solr to >> Tomcat. We don't usually ask why, just help when where we can. >> >> But the question happens often enough that I am curious. What is the >> actual >> business case. Is that because Tomcat is well known? Is it because other >> apps are running under Tomcat and it is ops' requirement? Is it because >> Tomcat gives something - to Solr - that Jetty does not? >> >> It might be useful to know. Especially, since Solr team is considering >> making the server part into a black box component. What use cases will >> that >> break? >> >> So, if somebody runs Solr under Tomcat (or needed to and gave up), let's >> use this thread to collect this knowledge. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at >> once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) >> >>
