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Windows OS as a production environment for any Tomcat webapp seems very unlikely.
by emergie 6y ago
Windows OS as a production environment for any Tomcat webapp seems very unlikely.
- pjmlp 6y agoYou would be surprised how many Microsoft shops among F500 do it all the time. Here is another one, WebSphere on Windows.
- varikin 6y agoIn the late 2000s, I worked for an enterprise software company. Turns out many smaller customers that needed our software were Windows based and ran our Tomcat based software on Windows servers. The larger companies that had dedicated Unix clusters for our software and other things. In the world of SaaS, this becomes less of a thing, but there are still a lot non-tech small businesses that start with Windows based IT solutions because they want Office & Outlook. Then they find some domain specific thing that they want to host and since they know windows, it runs on a Windows server.
- discreditable 6y agoMore common than you think. PowerSchool is a major Student Info System. Tomcat on Windows.
- Turbots 6y agoI have So Many customers running Spring Boot Apps on embedded tomcat on Windows server.
- davidgerard 6y agoshould be very unlikely. Unfortunately, there's a lot of this sort of thing. It's especially popular with enterprise software, which will often be a Windows exe or msi that wraps Tomcat and a Java app.
- technion 6y agoA quick look around and I see McAfee EPO and microstrategy running this configuration in one organisation. Seems common across my customers.
- sdwvit 6y agoAre you allowed by NDA to share such info?
- skinkestek 6y agoSaw some really ugly ness with a large company as late as 2019: The company is trying to move to the cloud they think. What they don't know is they have servers like this, running on internet facing machines, and the http servers are missing two years of patches! All hanging by the thin thread of ip filtering using a geo ip database (that is also outdated) etc. Yep: management and IT want Windows because maintainability, that particular dev wanted Apache server so Apache server on Windows it was.
- pmahoney 6y agoNote that Apache Tomcat is an implementation of Java Servlets, not to be confused with Apache httpd, the venerable web server.
- aeyes 6y agoTotally normal in enterprise environments. "We only have Windows, you'll run it on Windows."