CentOS - May 2012 - Tomcat5 with Oracle/Sun jdk on CentOS 5.8

I know this question could be asked on tomcat or possibly other mailing
lists, but I'm hoping I can get some help here instead of joining yet
another list.

I'm running tomcat5 on CentOS 5.8. I'm trying to setup Oracle/Sun java
rather than icedtea. I've installed the latest jdk 1.7 and setup
alternatives on centos for java and javac:

# java -version
java version "1.7.0_03"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_03-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.1-b02, mixed mode)


I've also set /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf to point JAVA_HOME to this jdk.

When I try to start tomcat5 I get:

Starting tomcat5: /usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find
jdbc-stdext Java extension for this JVM
/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find jndi Java extension for
this JVM
/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Some detected jars were not found for
this jvm
/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find jaas Java extension for
this JVM
/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Some detected jars were not found for
this jvm
                                                           [  OK  ]
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 343: /usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java: No such file or
directory
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 321: /usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java: No such file or
directory


I've been searching google all morning and haven't found a solution.
I'd
be willing to try jdk 1.5 or 1.6 if that is the fix, but I'm doubting
that's the fix. 

I'm also not sure where tomcat5 set JRE_HOME. Been searching and can't
find it. 

Anyone here know how to resolve this?

Any assistance is appreciated. 

Thanks,
James

> I'm also not sure where tomcat5 set JRE_HOME. Been searching and
can't
> find it. 
 
 Maybe you should look for JAVA_HOME ...

 /etc/init.d/tomcat5
 /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf
 /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5

 That's all I can say - while I got tomcat4 running on RHEL3, and tomcat6
 on CentOS6, I have a bit of a gap when it comes to CentOS5 and tomcat5,
 although the differences between 5 and 6 are much less than between 4 and 5.

On Mon, 21 May 2012, James Pifer wrote:
> I know this question could be asked on tomcat or possibly other 
> mailing lists, but I'm hoping I can get some help here instead of 
> joining yet another list.
>
> I'm running tomcat5 on CentOS 5.8. I'm trying to setup Oracle/Sun 
> java rather than icedtea. I've installed the latest jdk 1.7 and 
> setup alternatives on centos for java and javac:
>
> # java -version
> java version "1.7.0_03"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_03-b05)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.1-b02, mixed mode)
>
>
> I've also set /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf to point JAVA_HOME to this jdk.
>
> When I try to start tomcat5 I get:
>
> Starting tomcat5: /usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find
jdbc-stdext Java extension for this JVM
If you want to run Tomcat under Oracle's JVM, then you can't use the 
CentOS Tomcat; you'll need to download it directly from Apache.

   http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi

Note that Tomcat 5 reaches EOL later this year.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
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