Re: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-23 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2013/1/23 Mark Thomas : > On 23/01/2013 17:46, Williams, Nick wrote: >> Interesting problem I'd welcome feedback on: >> >> I have an OS environmental variable JAVA_HOME set to C:\Program >> Files\Java\jdk1.8 (so, JAVA_HOME is set to the JDK home). My belief >> was that I SHOULD be able to leave of

Re: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-23 Thread Mark Thomas
On 23/01/2013 17:46, Williams, Nick wrote: > Interesting problem I'd welcome feedback on: > > I have an OS environmental variable JAVA_HOME set to C:\Program > Files\Java\jdk1.8 (so, JAVA_HOME is set to the JDK home). My belief > was that I SHOULD be able to leave off the tools.jar. However, that

RE: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-23 Thread Williams, Nick
ools.javac.Main is not on the classpath. Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK. It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8\jre" Why (and how) is the JAVA_HOME getting changed to the JRE? *scratches head* N -Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apach

Re: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 22/01/2013 22:40, Williams, Nick wrote: > As you can see from my testing and comment in bug 54461 > (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54461), after > much effort I discovered that "complier" is indeed a parameter, but > so is "compilerClassName." In order to use anything other

RE: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-22 Thread Williams, Nick
From: Williams, Nick [mailto:nicholas.willi...@ul.com] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:42 PM To: Tomcat Developers List (dev@tomcat.apache.org) Subject: Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8 I'm running an experimental environment with JDK 1.8 and Tomcat 8.0 (trunk). I understand, of c

Compiling JSPs with JDK 1.8 in Tomcat 8

2013-01-21 Thread Williams, Nick
I'm running an experimental environment with JDK 1.8 and Tomcat 8.0 (trunk). I understand, of course, that there are some inherent instabilities associated with doing this, but something just doesn't seem quite right. I want JSPs to compile with Java 8, not Java 7. I understand that the Eclipse