> Hi all, > > I have had a long lasting headache trying to get the Installshield > version of Tomcat to install at all under Windows XP. > > I have tried both the IBM JDK v1.3, and the Sun JDK (enterprise edition) > v1.3, and neither of these JDKs can be found by the Tomcat > Installshield. In both cases the error message is: > > "Couldn't find a Java Development Kit installed on this computer. Please > download one from http://java.sun.com"; > > There is nothing I can find in the release notes to say that XP is > specifically not supported, nor is there an explanation anywhere of > where Tomcat is trying to find the JDK (registry? environment? somewhere > else?), nor is there is an option to say "point me at a JDK", which is a > pretty obvious pice of functionality to have. > > I've just sold the concept of Tomcat to a bunch of people as being > pretty easy to use - so far it's impossible to use under windows, and > I'm pretty embarrassed about the whole thing. Is there some guiding > light anyone can share?
This should have been fixed in 4.0.2 b1, but you have to set JAVA_HOME first. I'm not sure it does work with the IBM JDK, though (I never tried). Remy -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
