I would steer clear of any windowsInstaller messWithYourRegistry windows specific utilities and/or programs
SET JAVA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereJavaIsInstalled SET CATALINA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereTomcatIsInstalled SET JAVA_OPTS=whatever java options you need to set then java -jar bootstrap.jar works on every platform Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:42:42 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows > > André Warnier wrote: > > Brian Clark wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I > >> was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack > >> dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. > >> First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to "hide" the JVM instance. Java > >> doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against > >> the Tomcat PID but it errored out. > >> Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on > >> Win2k3? > >> > > I can't answer your question, but a look here might provide a clue : > > http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html > > > > That seems to be the way in which Tomcat is now implemented under > > Windows. Versions prior to 5.5 used to have a structure similar to the > > Unix version, with startup.bat and catalina.bat invoking Tomcat via > > Java, but that seems to have changed nowadays. > > > > Also, if it might help somewhat : open a command window and navigate to > > the Tomcat/bin directory. Then, instead of running tomcat as a service, > > just enter the "tomcatx.exe" command (where x is probably 6 in your > > case) (not the tomcatxW.exe). That will run Tomcat in the command > > window, maybe easier for you to figure out what is going on. > > Not for me though. > > > > Addendum : > I just had another look at the Tomcat site. For version 5.5, there are 2 > downloads for Windows : one is a zip, the other an msi installer. > I must have in the past downloaded and installed the msi. > I downloaded the zip version now, and that one seems to contain the > usual startup.bat and catalina.bat files, in addition to the Win32 > tomcat5 and tomcat5W executables. > Maybe the .bat files allow to start Tomcat in the "traditional" way, via > Java etc.. ? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/
