On 15/11/2019 15:50, Alexander Norz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a good point why the Windows Service Installer
> (apache-tomcat-9.0.27.exe) did not support Oracles Java JDK (11 without
> JRE) out-of-the-box especially for silent installation?

Because Oracle changed the directory layout and names of the standard
registry entries and the installer probably hasn't been updated to take
account of that yet.

> Meanwhile I know that I have to add a config-file with parameter /C for
> silent installation. But because of getting no error code and finding no
> log-file after a failed silent installation, it needs some time to solve
> this issue ;-)
> 
> IMHO unfortunately the installer does not look for Java by using the
> JAVA_HOME environment variable and also does not check the registry key
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\JDK for some reasons.
> 
> I suggest to add the JDK registry key and JAVA_HOME envvar to the
> install script (source/res/tomcat.nsi), if there is no reason against to
> use JDK only?

Patches welcome.

Mark

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