On Aug 26, 2013, at 7:52 AM, B W <bw20130...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like catalina.properties it is !

+1 catalina.properties is great for simple things, and it's more portable.

One, not so common reason you might want to use setenv.sh is if you want to do 
something dynamic.  Since setenv.sh is a shell script, you could dynamically 
capture some value and store it in a system property.

Contrived Ex:

  CATALINA_OPTS="-Dhostname=`hostname`"

Dan


> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> 
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>> B W,
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>> On 8/22/13 4:30 PM, B W wrote:
>>> What is the advantage to using catalina.properties vs setenv.sh?
>> 
>> If you use setenv.sh, then those system properties will only be
>> available if you use the Tomcat scripts to launch. If you use jsvc or
>> the Microsoft Windows Service Wrapper, they will not be available.
>> 
>> Using catalina.properties should allow you to set system properties
>> that will be loaded regardless of how you launch Tomcat.
>> 
>> - -chris
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