I have a question for those of you who develop on a unix-based OS, such as Linux or FreeBSD.
Did you install your
Java environment (JDK,
J2EE,
ant,
junit, etc) in your /home directories, or did you install in a system directory, such as /usr/local?
The reason I'm asking is to know which is the best method in terms of saving disk space, user permissions, and finally, deployment of the application.
Also, if you're
testing a servlet-based application, running
tomcat, for example, would it be better to have tomcat running from /home, so that you wouldn't have to switch to root everytime you want to compile?
Any thoughts, perspectives or experiences will be appreciated.