How do I set up Servlets on Linux?

Created May 4, 2012

Alex Chaffee

There are many products which support servlets on Linux. Most of them operate either in a standalone mode (acting as both web server and servlet engine) or as a back-end servlet engine plugging in to an existing web server (like Apache).

The most popular products seem to be:

Tomcat from Apache Jakarta
JServ from Apache
Resin from Caucho
JRun from Allaire

See the individual products' web sites and README files for installation instructions.

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