Using a Tomcat provided buildpack in Bluemix

By default if you push a java application into public Bluemix you will use the Liberty java buildpack. If you want to use tomcat you can do that as follows.

1. Show the buildpacks available as follows

> cf buildpacks

2. The buildpack which uses Tomcat is as follows

java_buildpack

3. Specify you would like to use the buildpack as shown below when using

cf push pas-props -d mybluemix.net -i 1 -m 256M -b java_buildpack -p props.war

Example:

pas@Pass-MacBook-Pro-2:~/bluemix-apps/simple-java$ cf push pas-props -d mybluemix.net -i 1 -m 256M -b java_buildpack -p props.war
Creating app pas-props in org pasapi@au1.ibm.com / space dev as pasapi@au1.ibm.com...
OK

Creating route pas-props.mybluemix.net...
OK

Binding pas-props.mybluemix.net to pas-props...
OK

Uploading pas-props...
Uploading app files from: props.war
Uploading 2.9K, 6 files
Done uploading
OK

Starting app pas-props in org pasapi@au1.ibm.com / space dev as pasapi@au1.ibm.com...
-----> Downloaded app package (4.0K)
-----> Java Buildpack Version: v3.0 | https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack.git#3bd15e1
-----> Downloading Open Jdk JRE 1.8.0_51 from https://download.run.pivotal.io/openjdk/lucid/x86_64/openjdk-1.8.0_51.tar.gz (11.6s)
       Expanding Open Jdk JRE to .java-buildpack/open_jdk_jre (1.2s)
-----> Downloading Tomcat Instance 8.0.24 from https://download.run.pivotal.io/tomcat/tomcat-8.0.24.tar.gz (2.4s)
       Expanding Tomcat to .java-buildpack/tomcat (0.1s)
-----> Downloading Tomcat Lifecycle Support 2.4.0_RELEASE from https://download.run.pivotal.io/tomcat-lifecycle-support/tomcat-lifecycle-support-2.4.0_RELEASE.jar (0.1s)
-----> Downloading Tomcat Logging Support 2.4.0_RELEASE from https://download.run.pivotal.io/tomcat-logging-support/tomcat-logging-support-2.4.0_RELEASE.jar (0.4s)
-----> Downloading Tomcat Access Logging Support 2.4.0_RELEASE from https://download.run.pivotal.io/tomcat-access-logging-support/tomcat-access-logging-support-2.4.0_RELEASE.jar (0.4s)

-----> Uploading droplet (50M)

0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
1 of 1 instances running

App started


OK

App pas-props was started using this command `JAVA_HOME=$PWD/.java-buildpack/open_jdk_jre JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMPDIR -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=$PWD/.java-buildpack/open_jdk_jre/bin/killjava.sh -Xmx160M -Xms160M -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=64M -XX:MetaspaceSize=64M -Xss853K -Daccess.logging.enabled=false -Dhttp.port=$PORT" $PWD/.java-buildpack/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run`

Showing health and status for app pas-props in org pasapi@au1.ibm.com / space dev as pasapi@au1.ibm.com...
OK

requested state: started
instances: 1/1
usage: 256M x 1 instances
urls: pas-props.mybluemix.net
last uploaded: Mon Aug 3 21:40:36 UTC 2015

     state     since                    cpu    memory           disk           details
#0   running   2015-08-03 02:41:47 PM   0.0%   136.7M of 256M   125.7M of 1G