On 19.12.07 10:12 Lawrence A. Quinn wrote:
Can tomcat be configured to use a different version of java than what is listed in java_home? Where does that configuration information reside?
Funny that you mention this, as I just completed a project at work to deal with something similar. We have a configuration file to control which webapplications can be started on a server and which java version and tomcat version is used. In this file we define which webapplication is used and which ports are used for tomcat and mod_jk, the ports are then used to create a minimal server.xml for each webapp and the paths shown in the file are then used to set the various enviroment variables (JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME, JAVA_OPTS). Here's a sniplet of the configfile: # channel_name:webapp_name:server_port:service_port:mem_min:mem_max:host:framework:flags:java_home:tomcat_home:java_lib_path remedy:remedy:8001:8011:64:64:slacker:xins:remedy:/usr/local/j2sdk1.5.0_05:/usr/local/tomcat:/opt/remedy71p1/lib Based on these parameters we can configure each instance of tomcat to use a different java version. But be aware, if you change the tomcat version, you will probably need to create a new server.xml (this I found out the hard way..). We control all the webapplications via a custom build perl script which enables us to setup the mod_jk.conf, the workers.properties and the server.xml for all webapplications defined in our config file. The same script also is used to stop/start the webapplications and to check the status of each application (is it running, is the port already in use etc etc). I don't know if this is the official way for managing multiple tomcat instances but it works, and works well. Hope this helps :) Cheers, Wesley -- Orange Nederland Breedband BV, http://www.orange.nl & http://www.equant.nl & http://www.euronet.nl Wesley Schwengle, System Administrator, IT Operations - Business Systems --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
