RE: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Lucia
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

Re: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Funk
Some of us run many JVM's on the same machine. And for reasons which drive us insane, java 1.1.X tends to be the first java in the PATH. -Tim Stefan Wachter wrote: Hi all, wouldn't it be nice if Tomcat does not need the JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME environment variable? After installation of the

Re: RE: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Giuseppe Briotti
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. Unfortunately, this is not really true... because the first entry in path is the really one active. I had orrible experience

Re: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan Wachter
Hi Tim (et al.), ok, I understand the necessity for using different JDKs. I thought that adjusting the JAVA_HOME environment variable for certain situations might be the same effort as adjusting the PATH environment variable. Maybe an option would be to use the JAVA_HOME/JRE_HOME variables

Re: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Farrow
The question is: Where will Tomcat be running? If Tomcat is only running on one server, then only that server needs to be set up. If you are going to be running Tomcat on each machine, then modify/create the start up scripts to set the JAVA_HOME/JAVA_JRE paths in the script. (Easily done on

Re: JAVA_HOME / JRE_HOME still necessary?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Farrow
Did I reply to the wrong thread? Or did I reply to a high-jacked thread? I am sorry. On 5/10/06, Marc Farrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: Where will Tomcat be running? If Tomcat is only running on one server, then only that server needs to be set up. If you are going to be