About Tomcat

Parallels Pro Control Panel supports the latest version of Tomcat (v-4.0.6), developed by the Jakarta-Apache Project. Tomcat 4.0 implements the final released versions of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JaveServer Pages™ (JSP) 1.2 specifications. As required by the specifications, Tomcat 4.0 also supports Web applications built for Java Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 specifications, with no changes. Additionally, the Tomcat 4.0 Servlet Container (Catalina) provides greater flexibility and performance.

The Tomcat 4 package includes a set of tools designed to host Java™ Web applications. The package is shipped with the following:

• Sun Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) development environment version 1.4.2, which includes J2SDK™ 1.4.2 and JRE (installed in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/ and /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/ respectively)
• mod_jk-2.0 (Apache 2.0)
• Tomcat 4.0.6, installed in /var/tomcat4
• Database driver for MySQL and postgres, installed in /var/tomcat4/common/lib:
  • mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga-bin.jar for MySQL
  • pg73jdbc3.jar for postgres
  • Tyrex, installed in /var/tomcat4/common/lib/tyrex-0.9.7.0.jar
  • JNDI™, installed in /var/tomcat4/common/lib/jndi.jar
  • Mail, installed in /var/tomcat4/common/lib/mail.jar

Important: Ensure that you meet the following minimum requirements for Tomcat:
* RAM: The server must have at least 512 MB of RAM.
*Disk usage: The server must have at least 21 MB free disk space available.