I've been contracted to setup a vdc (virtual data center thedata.org) which involves having tomcat installed.

To install tomcat, I need java installed.

Fedora Core 3 does not come with either installed.

Tried core 4, but some bugs in it with the VDC.

Does anybody have a very "and I mean VERY" detailed, step by step tutorial on how to install and configure these 2 applications (java, tomcat) and to get them running and talking to apache? I've gone through the website and failed, and a bunch of other places and failed (really seems tomcat/java setup has been kinda cryptic, especially since java needs a bunch of jta's also).