Hello guys,
I have deploy the tomcat server remotely. i have downloaded jdk-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin and jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar. Now i have to install java basically i don't know where it will be installed. i need the this path to be install and need to create symbolic link for tomcat. so with following requirement can you help me to create it.


path /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/javac

so my java has to be installed in /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin

And how can i specify the symbolic link for java.
Is this correct
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11 /bin/javac /usr/bin/javac
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11 /bin/java /usr/bin/java

please help me i was confused here can you guys help me to understand the installation of java and symbolic link creation for java.

It would certainly help if you told us which distribution. On Fedora, you would get the jdk.rmp.bin from Sun, then
chmod +x jdkx.x.x
./jdkx.x.x
rpm -ivh jdkx.x.x.rpm

And that will install it by default exactly where you need it to be. As for the symlinking, I don't see why you would need that. All you need to do is set this in /et/profile
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdkx.x.x