Re: Tomcat 5.0.19 on iSeries v5r2

["Colin Williams" <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc,

isnt their a system.properties file, that includes a property to specifiy
the default java version to use if none is specified.

I think this can be set a system and user level, so you may be getting hit
by this.

cheers
Colin.W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Logemann" <spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:16 PM
Subject: Tomcat 5.0.19 on iSeries v5r2


> 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
>
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