Re: Installing JEE

[Jari Fredriksson <jarif@iki.fi>]

On 2015-07-13 13:35, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote:
> Hello Cecil,
>
>
> Java EE means you need an application server. Some of the popular 
> open
> source ones I know are:
>
> - Apache Tomee - http://tomee.apache.org/
> - GlassFish - https://glassfish.java.net/
> - JBoss WildFly - http://wildfly.org/
>
> From what I know, none of them support JEE8 atm (not yet released).
> All of them support JEE 6, and a few JEE 7. You will find that
> information on each project page.
>
> Unfortunately, they are not present in Debian. The reason, IMHO, they
> have a lot of dependencies and are quite hard to package/maintain.
>
> I recommend you start with Apache Tomee for JEE 6. I had quite good
> experience with it.

That said, there is some good news: it does not need to be "present" in 
Debian. Just download some package from the Apache/Oracle/JBoss site and 
extract that, configure some and start it.

They are self sufficient, as long as there is JDK installed, preferably 
Oracle JDK.

That's how it is.

br. jarif