Tomcat 5.0.19 on iSeries v5r2

[Marc Logemann <spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I regulary installed Tomcat 4.x versions on iSeries manually by downloading 
releases from jakarta
and compiled the jars manually. Everything fine so far. Today i installed 
Tomcat 5.0.19 and 
pointed JAVA_HOME to the jdk 1.4 on the iSeries (/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk14)

I got strange errors like TLDs which couldnt be loaded from inside JAR files 
and 
missing methods from the core library at usercode level. This lead me to the
assumption that even with the JAVA_HOME var specified, Tomcat tried to 
compile the JSPs with 1.3 and also used the 1.3 class library. Then i modified
the catalina.sh shell script and added -Djava.version=1.4 to the Start command
of catalina. Everything worked from now on. But after all this is somewhat 
strange to
me. Anyone with similar experiences? Cant be normal that you have to edit the 
startup
script to get it running.

This might be a question for the tomcat maillist but i think its also iSeries 
related, never had
problems with Tomcat 5.x on a windows machine, whatever JDK i am using.

Marc Logemann
Logentis e.K.
iSeries related articles at: http://www.logentis.de/support/free4all.html