Tag Archives: windows

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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re-installing windows XP to dual boot with Suse Linux

January 8, 2008 – 2:17 pm

Wow… I started this exercise on Sunday, expecting windows to take a couple of hours to install and for everything to go swimmingly! If you are reading this, I probably don’t have to tell you that I was wrong!
Before talking solutions, I will describe some of my problems… and they don’t all relate to Windows, […]

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