Tomcat 5.5.20 on Windows - Service and App

[ne...@swisslab.de]

 Hello,

I ve downloaded two Windows versions of Tomcat. First the Serviceinstaller,
second the 'normal' zip archive. 
Than I installed the Java JRE (!) on my system.

When starting the service installation of Tomcat the programm runs fine.
When starting Tomcat by hand using 'bin/startup run' I get the message:
JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

Why is it that I can start Tomcat as a service using the JRE only, but fail
when using the 'normal' Tomcat App?

Thanks,
Jan 

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RE: Tomcat 5.5.20 on Windows - Service and App

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: news@swisslab.de [mailto:news@swisslab.de] 
> Subject: Tomcat 5.5.20 on Windows - Service and App
> 
> When starting Tomcat by hand using 'bin/startup run' I get 
> the message:
> JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

Use JRE_HOME, not JAVA_HOME, if you have only a JRE installed.

 - Chuck


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Re: Tomcat 5.5.20 on Windows - Service and App

[Len Popp <le...@gmail.com>]

When you run Tomcat with startup.bat it uses the JAVA_HOME environment
variable to find the JAVA JVM. You must set JAVA_HOME to the JVM you
want to use.

When you run it as a service, the service wrapper gets the JVM
location and other settings from the registry. You can change these
using the Configure Tomcat program.
-- 
Len

On 2/10/07, news@swisslab.de <ne...@swisslab.de> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I ve downloaded two Windows versions of Tomcat. First the Serviceinstaller,
> second the 'normal' zip archive.
> Than I installed the Java JRE (!) on my system.
>
> When starting the service installation of Tomcat the programm runs fine.
> When starting Tomcat by hand using 'bin/startup run' I get the message:
> JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
>
> Why is it that I can start Tomcat as a service using the JRE only, but fail
> when using the 'normal' Tomcat App?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
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