Hi, My own experience tells me it is just easier and safer to use 'java -jar jenkins.war'.
Within a container you have compatibility risks with other applications, compatibility risks with the container itself (ok with Tomcat I don't think there are many risks since it is widely used to run Jenkins instances). If one of the hosted applications has a problem (like memory leak) then you need to recycle the whole container, which means all services hosted on it are down. In my opinion this is not acceptable. The downside is that you need one port for each application, but using a reverse proxy as frontend it is usually not such an issue. Vincent 2013/3/6 Josselin Pierre <pierre.j...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > AFAIK, the main goal of using Tomcat is to re-use an existing one. > For example, on my CI server I have both Jenkins, Sonar and Artifactory > running ; > it can be considered "cleaner" to have only one application server running > all these software instead of one per software. > > That doesn't change anything on the software-side configuration, but can > considerable reduce the "system-side" configuration. > For example, only one port is used for all the applications, no need to > open a new one on the firewall / proxies / etc. > > I'm not aware of any huge performance benefits, but I think that for huge > Jenkins instance, > a dedicated Tomcat/whatever can be more finely tuned. > > > > > > > 2013/3/6 Bertrand Jacquin <be...@meleeweb.net> > >> Hi, >> >> I'm starting using Jenkins for a project to replace buildbot, and I'm >> able to make Jenkins web interface working without any Tomcat, just by >> using the war file included in >> http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/RPMS/noarch/jenkins-1.502-1.1.noarch.rpm >> >> I can't figure out looking to the Wiki what are the benefit from using >> Tomcat or others ? >> >> Could you enlighten me ? >> >> -- >> Beber >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
