Hello. If anybody has a minute, it's been a while since I've worked with
Tomcat and in comparing my archives with the installation steps for Tomcat 9, I want to conform something...
Back in the day, I simply used an executable, jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24.exe
I remember it was a simple wizard, pick the JRE from a dropdown list of installed JREs and then it ran the install, including making it a Windows Serivce. Done.
I was able to send both the JRE install exe and jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24.exe to Windows admins and they installed them no problem. No messing with environment variables.
Now, for Tomcat 9 (and presumably 8 and 7), I'm seeing copy the base directory from the zip onto the drive, set JAVA_HOME (but now apparently it's JRE_HOME) environment variables, PATH for the JRE, then back to the Tomcat bin directories and run startup.bat, then service, bat (I presume that will put it into the Service Manager list)....
Is this accurate? There's no longer the one and done Tomcat executable? Thank you so much for reading and for your time.