MacOS X

MacOS has a number of command line package managers for open source components. We recommend using SDKMAN! to manage Java and Tomcat environment.

Java

Make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your system. GeoWebCache requires a Java 17 or Java 21 environment.

  • Required: Java Development Kit 17 (JDK 17)

    Open JDK:

    https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=17 Temurin 17 (LTS) - Recommended

  • SDKMan!

    # list to determine latest Temurin JDK 17
sdk list java 17

# Installing latest Temurin JDK 17 shown above
sdk install java 17.0.15-tem

# Select Java for use
sdk use java 17<tab>

See Upgrading for compatibility table.

Apache Tomcat

GeoWebCache requires Apache Tomcat 9 required for JavaEE environment.

  1. Navigate to Tomcat 9 Downloads section, and save the zip file listed under Binary Distributions / Core.

    • Tomcat 9 Required: GeoWebCache uses the JavaEE environment last supported in Tomcat 9.

    • Tomcat 10 Unsupported: GeoWebCache is not yet compatibile with the JakartaEE environment used by Tomcat 10 and newer.

  • SDKMan!

    # list to determine latest Apache Tomcat 9
sdk list tomcat 9

# Installing latest Tomcat 9 shown above
sdk install tomcat 9.0.102

# Select tomcat for use
sdk use tomcat 9.0.102

GeoWebCache is not compatible with Apache Tomcat 10 JakarataEE environment.

Previous: Windows
Next: Installing GeoWebCache