<section name="Introduction">
<p>
A number of additional third party components may be used with Apache
- Tomcat, but are not provided directly in the download bundle. These
- components may be built by users should they need them.
+ Tomcat. These components may be built by users should they need them or they
+ can be downloaded from one of the mirrors.
</p>
</section>
+ <section name="Downloading">
+ <p>
+ To down load the extras components open the Tomcat 6 download page and
+ select browse from the Quick Navigation Links. The extras components can be
+ found in bin/extras.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
<section name="Building">
<p>
<p>
By default, only java.util.logging is available for the core Tomcat, as Tomcat uses
a package renamed logging implementation which is hardcoded for that logger. Usage of
- alternate loggers is available after building the extra components (see
- the <a href="extras.html">extras components</a> documentation), which includes
+ alternate loggers is available after building or downloading the extra components
+ (see the <a href="extras.html">extras components</a> documentation), which includes
a full commons-logging implementation.
</p>
</section>
<li><a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j">Download Log4J</a>
(v1.2 or later) and place the log4j jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib.</li>
- <li>Build the commons-logging additional component using the extras.xml
- Ant build script which is part of the Tomcat source bundle.</li>
+ <li>Build or download the additional logging components. See the
+ <a href="extras.html">extras components</a> documentation for details.</li>
<li>Replace <code>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar</code> with
<code>output/extras/tomcat-juli.jar</code>.</li>