[ Thanks to Frank for
this link. ]
Linux and the Java platform have had a long–but often
troubled–relationship. Early moves to develop open source clean
room implementations of the Java platform largely floundered on the
complexities of building high-performance virtual machines while
simultaneously trying to keep up with the ever-growing set of core
Java APIs. Licensed implementations of Java technologies eventually
became available for Linux, but these implementations were not open
source. Most Linux distributions don’t include the licensed
implementations for that reason.“Despite these difficulties, the Java platform provides major
benefits that have led to increasing use of the licensed
implementations on Linux, especially for server applications. In
this article, I review the advantages of the Java platform for
server applications, then look at the issues involved in simply and
safely deploying Java services on Linux. As a practical example,
I’ll cover the details of setting up the Apache Software
Foundation’s widely used Tomcat Java servlet engine for standalone
operation…”