RE: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-23 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: jaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5 > > Is it necessary that catalina.home system property > is always set for a tomcat install? It's not necessary to have it set during Tomcat installation. It is necessary during Tomcat execution,

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-23 Thread jaki
Hi all, One more thing I wanted clarification on..Is it necessary that catalina.home system property is always set for a tomcat install? Cause trying to retrieve it from within a java class gives me null. But I can also find it being referenced in many of the config files, so any help on where th

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-21 Thread André Warnier
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Martin Gainty: [...] I think the main issue (which has also been touched in several other threads recently) is some level of confusion with the Tomcat Windows Installer, and what one finds oneself with in the Tomcat_install_dir/bin directory in that case. Instead o

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-21 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Martin Gainty: you'll definitely need the JDK in $JAVA_HOME and $JDK_HOME/bin to compile the JSPs.. No, a JRE is enough. Regards mks - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

RE: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-21 Thread Martin Gainty
Subject: RE: JVM config for tomcat5.5 > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:51:31 +0200 > > Tomcat requires Java (at least SDK; but JDK won't harm) to be installed. On > my machine I usually set: > > JAVA_HOME to the installation path for jdk/sdk e.g. /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_07 > CATA

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-21 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Jon Camilleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Tomcat Users List'" Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:51 AM Subject: RE: JVM config for tomcat5.5 Tomcat requires Java (at least SDK; but JDK won&

RE: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-20 Thread Jon Camilleri
Tomcat requires Java (at least SDK; but JDK won't harm) to be installed. On my machine I usually set: JAVA_HOME to the installation path for jdk/sdk e.g. /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_07 CATALINA_HOME to the installation path for /usr/apache-tomcat-6.0.16. Hope this helps. -Original Message- From:

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-20 Thread jaki
Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to retrieve java.home used by tomcat using a java program. I could go with sys.getProperty("java.home"), but the value returned doesn't always have to match with java.home local to tomcat. So it seems peeking into the registry is the only way forward for

Re: JVM config for tomcat5.5

2008-09-20 Thread Mark Thomas
jaki wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to know where java_home is set for Tomcat when it's installed as a > service since I can't find any .bat/.sh files in my tomcat folder. Thanks http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/setup.html - T