My case is also similar to "Sujit Pal" but we have jboss6.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Sujit Pal <sujit....@comcast.net> wrote: > 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) > >> > >> >
