Comment 2 for bug 207787

This sorta covers the case, but not entirely. This creates instances for developers. My scripts and solution create multiple instances on servers. Often companies run multiple instances of Tomcat on a server to scale things up and also run different webapps on a single server in separate Tomcat instances. In order to use this solution in the same manner, I'd have to create multiple users on the server and then setup instances for each user. Your solution will work as long as it provides init scripts for each user Tomcat instance. Otherwise, it is not the same solution and won't work on servers.