While installing Tomcat unable to find J2SE 5.0 JRE

[kribo]

Hi,

I'm trying to re-install Tomcat and while re-installing Tomcat I get the message unable to find J2SE 5.0 JRE.
Even after pointing to the path of where JSDK is installed for example (C:\Sun\SDK\JDK\JRE\BIN\CLIENT), Tomcat is not accepting.
Here's the error message: NO JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE FOUND IN FOLDER: (points to the directory provided).
If I click continue and the setup closes and have to restart from the beginning.

Is there a service that's preventing this?
Tomcat and JSDK were initially installed and I was able to open up a browser and view the Welcome page.
But once un-installed I now can't even proceed with the re-install without the correct path to J2SE 5.0 JRE.

Currently I'm trying to install this application on a Lotus Domino server (production server).
Has anyone come across this issue and will re-installing JSDK cause any issue when running on a Lotus Domino server?

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[timw]

You should point JAVA_HOME at C:\Sun\SDK\JDK
(Tomcat requires the javac compiler to compile JSP pages on-the-fly and this means using the JDK rather than the JRE. Alternatively, I think you can copy the tools.jar from the JDK installation into the Tomcat/server/lib which gives it the same capability).

Either way, you don't point JAVA_HOME all the way down to the directory you did. Either C:\Sun\SDK\JDK for the JDK or C:\Sun\SDK\JDK\JRE for the JRE.

Hope this helps.

Tim

 

[kribo]

Tim,

Thank you for the feedback.
I've pretty much exhausted all options that I could think of, even just pointing the directory to not go all the way to the \bin\client, but to no avail.
I just ran out of time and decided to just install the stand alone Java Virtual Machine and Tomcat right away sees the path.
I don't see a conflict do you?
How bout if it's being run on a Domino production server?

Thanks again.

 

[timw]

Thought you'd already got the stand alone JVM. (If by standalone you mean the separate JDK installer from Sun). This will be fine.

I no absolutely nothing about Domino Production Servers. Never heard of these before.

Tim

 

[timw]

..and when I say 'no' I mean, of course, 'know'. My spelling-brain short-circuits every now and then

Tim