Packaging Tomcat for Linux Distributions - Coty Sutherland, Red Hat
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-05-22

Packaging Tomcat for Linux Distributions - Coty Sutherland, Red Hat


What is the difference between the ASF Tomcat distribution and the various flavors of tomcat packages on Linux? Most users don’t know! In this discussion Coty will explain how the tomcat packages distributed by a couple flavors of Linux (Red Hat and Debian/Ubuntu) are laid out and why the container is provided that way. Coty also hopes to get feedback from the audience and to discuss how these Linux distributions can better provide tomcat to users.

About Coty Sutherland
Coty Sutherland is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. that contributes to the JBoss Web Server product. Over his five year career at Red Hat Coty has been in various positions including Technical Support Engineer for Tomcat/httpd/JBoss EAP, Business Intelligence Engineer, and now Senior Software Engineer. Coty is an an active contributor to the Apache Tomcat community, co-maintainer of the Fedora Tomcat package, and maintainer for the RHEL Tomcat packages.