No servlet container is needed at all. We're moving away from distributing a war file in the future, Solr 5x still distributes a war for back-compat reasons. The preferred method is now to use the bin/solr start script.
Under the covers this still uses Jetty, but that is now an "implementation detail" that may change in the future and you don't have to do _anything_ to accommodate those changes. See: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/WhyNoWar Best, Erick On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Doug Ford <df...@nu.edu> wrote: > Hi folks - > > Quick question: > > Is TomCat needed on Windows Server 2012 before I install SOLR 5.1? > > Thanks > > Doug