[Karsten]

Dear support team,

I have read most of the tomcat 5.5 topics but no one has solved my problem:

I just use the following configuration
MyEclipse 3.8.4 on basis of Eclipse 3.1 M6
JDK 1.5
Tomcat 5.5

If I try to start tomcat by using the IDE icon > Tomcat 5 > Start, then a popup comes up with title “Error startin tomcat” and context “A configuration error occured during startup. Please verify the preference field with the prompt: Tomcat JDK name.”

It seems that there is a problem in using JDK 1.5. If I set a JDK 1.4.8, then a message in the console will be displayed by tomcat:

“This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0
or later. It can be run on earlier JVMs by downloading and
installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat
binary download page.”

So it seems that tomcat was started this time but with the wrong JDK.

So how can I make my 5.5 running under myeclipse controll?

Thanks in advance
Karsten

[Scott Anderson]

Karsten,

The issue is likely that when you configured your Java 1.5 environment you either installed only a JRE, and not a full JDK, or when you configured the location you pointed to <jdk-install>\jre\bin instead of <jdk-install>\bin. We have more details on setting up JDK’s for use with servers in our Application Server Quickstart (including this specific error message) here: http://www.myeclipseide.com/images/tutorials/quickstarts/appservers/

[srohanrao]

The tomcat JDK settings might be pointing to the JRE directory instead of JDK installation directory.

Go to the location windows –> Preferences –> Application Severs –> Tomcat –> JDK and point to JDK installation directory. More detials in this page http://myeclipseide.com/enterpriseworkbench/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.genuitec.myeclipse.doc/html/quickstarts/appservers/index.html

[Stephen McConnell]

I am using MyEclipse IDE 5.1 and receiving the same problem.
I have ONLY the Java 1.5.10 JDK installed. I re-installed Tomcat 5.5 and pointed it to the correct JRE upon installation.

There is no

windows –> Preferences –> MyEclipe –> Tomcat 5 –> JDK prompt to point to any JDK directory in the dialog box….

What should I do now???

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen McConnell]

Never mind…. Found the answer to my own question…….

There was no prompt in the dialog Box configuring Tomcat 5…. It was a submenu of the Tomcat 5 Application server configuration tree.

Sorry and thanks

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