How to Install Tomcat 10 for Jakarta Development

Here’s a quick example of how to install Tomcat 10. With this release, you can take advantage of the switch from javax to jakarta in the package names and start coding web apps that use the Servlet 5 API. Just one thing of note, to install Tomcat 10, you’ll need JDK 11 installed and the JAVA_HOME variable set. Otherwise you’ll get an error about a bad JRE_HOME or bad JAVA_HOME when you start the Java application server. But if that’s done, really, at Tomcat 10 installation couldn’t be easier.