Thanks Steve, My installer is totally ant-based and it does not have the capability to search the registry and locate the entries...instead if you could tell me which location in the Tomcat points to this JRE, I could over-write that value instead...i think that would be much easier.
If I am not wrong, it use to be in catalina.bat but Tomcat6 does not ships that file anymore... any clues??? Broken On 7/18/07, Steve Ochani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Chris, > But if I make the users run the JRE installer and install it anywhere > they want to.....then how would the Tomcat silent install locate the > JRE. I don't know the details about the installer you are making but if you can access the registry then have the installer look in this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment under that key there is a string value called CurrentVersion The value of which is a key name under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment Which will then have another string value called JavaHome which has the full path of the jre -Steve O. >The whole purpose of why I was suggesting to include JRE inside > Tomcat was to resolve this path issue to JRE. > > The end-users of the app would be business analysts and I don't think > they would know how to set up the JAVA_HOME variable, so that I can > use that in Tomcat to locate JRE. > > any clues???? > > Broken > > > > On 7/18/07, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Broken, > > broken connection wrote: > > I have read the license > > > agreement for both Tomcat and JRE and I guess I can do that as long > as I > > distribute the appropriate license files. > > You might want > to re-read the JRE license agreement. It used to be that > you needed > to force your users to separately download Sun's Java > products. This > may not be the case any more, but since you are not a > native English > speaker (the word "doubt" in place of "question" gave you > away ;) ), > you may want to get some real legal advice if you are reading > it in > English. > > > 1. I was thinking to make it as easy for the end-user > by just copying > the > > whole Tomcat folder into his drive and then > automatically start the > > tomcat6.exe and taking him to the webapp's > index page.So, this won't > prompt > > the user for Tomcat Installer > and would be like installing Tomcat from a > > zip file.Would this > work??? > > It should. Of course, you won't be automatically starting > the > application as a service in this situation. > > > 2. Tomcat > needs JRE and since I am trying to do a silent install, can i > > > throw the JRE jar under TOMCAT/lib or under my webapp's WEB-INF/lib > and > do > > you think it will work,instead of making him go through > the JRE > > installation steps?? > > You can install the JRE anywhere > you'd like. I wouldn't install it into > the Tomcat directory at all. > Using the Tomcat directory won't make it > any easier... just pick > something that makes sense, like Sun's default > of (something like) > %ProgramFiles%\Java\jre1.6.0_02 (or whatever version > number is > appropriate). > > Unless you require a certain version of Java, you > might want to check to > see if Java is already installed somewhere > and use the existing version. > > -chris > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
