Set the JVM for Tomcat 5.x to a value different from JAVA_HOME
Posted by doubleA on February 2, 2007
While most of my development is done in Java 1.4, I wanted to play around with 1.5 a while back. In order to run Tomcat with 1.5 but keeping JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.4, I created a simple batch file to setup the JAVA_HOME and CATALINE_HOME directories. There is a separate Tomcat installation so that I can have Java 1.5 features and jars installed there.
echo Setting values for Java5
set JAVA_HOME=d:\dev\jdk1.5.0_05
set CATALINA_HOME=d:\dev\tomcat50Java5
echo Set values
echo Starting server
startup.bat