Tag Archives: tomcat

Tomcat JRE_HOME setting

July 16, 2008 – 11:00 am

If you are running Tomcat from the command line using catalina.bat (or catalina.sh) then you can set the start up settings in your shell.
set JRE_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_14
This works on Windows, it seems that JAVA_HOME is the only system variable tomcat 5.5 is using. The rest come from the start directory?
Using CATALINA_BASE:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_HOME:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26\temp
Using JRE_HOME:        […]

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Tomcat on Windows

July 16, 2008 – 10:44 am

Does anyone else find it painful that Tomcat seems to find all of it’s configuration settings on Windows in the registry?

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Spring MVC

June 27, 2008 – 2:22 pm

We have been looking at this framework for an intranet site… it led to my realisation that Java really made things pretty difficult to display international character sets… but that was an earlier post.
I followed most of the instructions in developing a Spring Framework MVC, though I didn’t create a JDBC based persistence layer. We’ll […]

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