tomcat 5.5.17 catalina.bat - dropping support for JPDA_OPTS environment variable?

[Kurt Roy <kr...@prosrm.com>]

Hello,

We have upgraded from tomcat 4.1.18 to 5.5.17, and have found that our
system start up process on Windows can no longer set jpda debugger
options on the tomcat java command line.

This occurs because the 5.5.17 catalina.bat file no longer supports the
environment variable $JPDA_OPTS, which our start up process used to use
to place jpda information. What is interesting is that catalina.sh STILL
supports JPDA_OPTS. So we have this problem on windows only. 

Is this an intentional change?

We have fixed the problem by instead specifying JPDA_TRANSPORT and
JPDA_ADDRESS. However, this fix is only partial - with the catalina.bat
script unaltered, it is not possible to set suspend=y, as it is
hard-coded to suspend=n on the %_EXECJAVA% command lines

We updated the script and added a JPDA_SUSPEND environment variable, but
it would be nice to not have to change the script, as this will cause
upgrade issues.

We would like to back out the JPDA_SUSPEND change if there is a newer
fix.

Thanks for your time,

Kurt Roy
PROS Revenue Management
3100 Main Street, Suite 900
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: 713-335-8007
Email: kroy@prosrm.com




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Re: tomcat 5.5.17 catalina.bat - dropping support for JPDA_OPTS environment variable?

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

Kurt Roy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have upgraded from tomcat 4.1.18 to 5.5.17, and have found that our
> system start up process on Windows can no longer set jpda debugger
> options on the tomcat java command line.
> 
> This occurs because the 5.5.17 catalina.bat file no longer supports the
> environment variable $JPDA_OPTS, which our start up process used to use
> to place jpda information. What is interesting is that catalina.sh STILL
> supports JPDA_OPTS. So we have this problem on windows only. 
> 
> Is this an intentional change?

Not that I can tell. If you care to create a patch and submit it to
bugzilla I'll take a look.

Mark

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