What about multiple JREs or JDKs on your system? Unlike Microsoft products, you can actually have multiple versions of Java on your system coexisting peacefully. Try installing the public beta of IE 7--and you are now running beta software in the core of your OS (assuming of course you have a Windows desktop ;-)
Also, for security reasons, daemon processes and/or services should not require or rely on PATH variables. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Wachter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:13 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary? Hi all, wouldn't it be nice if Tomcat does not need the JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME environment variable? After installation of the SUN-JDK these environment variables are not set. Java is in the "path" and that's it. While starting Tomcat the script "setclasspath.bat" checks if one of the environment variables JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME is set. Then one of these variables is used to construct the execution commands and to set the CLASSPATH environment variable such that is contains tools.jar. As far as the execution command is concerned using one of the HOME-variables is not necessary as long as Java is in the path. I wonder why the classpath must contain tools.jar. Tomcat 5.5 uses the Eclipse Java compiler for compiling JSPs. Therefore I think that tools.jar is no more needed. Patching "setclasspath.bat" such that it no more relies on one of the HOME variables I started Tomcat. It seems to work as usual. Thanks for your attention, --Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
