After a few hours of R&D, I came to discover a mistake in the Apache Jakarta Project setup documentation which ships on Macs with Panther pre-installed. After following the setup instructions, it incorrectly states that browsing on port 8080 would yield:
If you're seeing this page via a web browser, it means you've setup Tomcat successfully. Congratulations!In my case, it was port 9006 which I found after viewing the log file, which itself was in an odd place on my system: the path to the "catalina.out" file is /Library -> Logs -> JBoss -> catalina.out.
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