Tomcat is not J2EE, and Glassfish is not J2EE. J2EE is a set of specs. Tomcat contains implementations of some of them. Glassfish happens to bundle implementation of all of them. Tomcat provides a piece of the EE stack, installing the Glassfish application server bundle will you get one implementation of the entire stack. The statement "installing JEE usually causes problems" implies JEE is something apart from Tomcat that doesn't play well with it. That's wrong. You can install other J2EE pieces along side Tomcat just fine and they don't have to be from Glassfish. For example you can install JMS from ActiveMQ and get your JMS piece of the EE stack from them. What you are really trying to say is that installing other Servlet implementations along side Tomcat's can cause problems. Even that statement is incorrect. I run Tomcat along side a full Glassfish install just fine, you just have to point to the libraries you want to use (Tomcat's or Glassfish's servlet API for example) on a per project basis depending on where your project is going to be deployed.
The question for the OP is how much of the J2EE stack do you want/need? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Mighty Tornado [mailto:mighty.torn...@gmail.com] > > Subject: Fwd: J2EE on Mac > > > > Can somebody please tell me where I can download the latest > > J2EE for Mac? > > You do not need or want J2EE in order to compile servlets (and JSPs); the > regular JDK is enough. > > Since you state Tomcat is already running, you must have at least a JRE > installed already, and most likely a full JDK. If you can run javac, you're > ready - nothing more is needed. > > Installing the JEE usually causes problems, due to conflicts with libraries > already supplied by Tomcat. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
