Hi David, > We need to run Tomcat7 on JRE7 on Debian 9.
Debian is not, like other distros, a software museum ;-) You can run Tomcat 8 on JRE 8 on Debian 9. Anything older would require Debian 8 “jessie” which is out of regular security support. In our experience, what works on Java 7 works on Java 8. The move from Tomcat 7 to 8 may require changes to the software, but in most of our inhouse software it didn’t. While it would be possible to provide JRE 7 for Debian 9 with relatively little effort, albeit completely unsup‐ ported, doing the same for Tomcat and all of its depen‐ dencies is quite some amount of work. (Also, packages comung with Debian 9 would assume JRE8 or newer.) So it’s the least work overall to make things work with Tomcat 8. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg ************************************************* **Besuchen Sie uns auf der dmexco 2018!** 12**. **& 13. September 2018, Koelnmesse / **Halle 7,** **Stand A-031** Digital Business, Marketing und Innovation [www.tarent.de/dmexco](http://www.tarent.de/dmexco) ************************************************* **Visit us at dmexco 2018!** 12th & 13th September, 2018, Koelnmesse / **Hall 7,** **Booth A-031** Digital business, marketing and innovation [www.tarent.de/dmexco](http://www.tarent.de/dmexco) *************************************************
