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I want to run my Tomcat with Java 7 but all I found about configuring it doesn't work. The management interface of Tomcat shows 1.6.0_24-b24 as Java version. The JAVA_HOME variable is empty.

% echo $JAVA_HOME

I understand that in this case Tomcat uses the system default Java, which should be 7.

% java -version
java version "1.7.0_09"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.3.3) (7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)

I changed it with update-alternatives.

What part of the configuration am I missing?

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    The command update-java-alternatives will update all java related alternatives. Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 2:51
  • Did do it. Sadly no changes :-( Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 10:22

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Reset to default
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Finally found the right configuration file my self. It is /etc/default/tomcat. There I was able to set

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

and it works now.

Thanks for the help.

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  • Yup, this is right. On most systems, you don't have access to the tomcat user in a way you can set JAVA_HOME. You have two choices: change the Java in use by the whole system to a single one or tweak it the way you show here. Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 15:48
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export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/java/environment Then run tomcat.

You can do this in the users .bash_profile as well.

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    This doesn't work either. Set it to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 which is now shown by echo $JAVA_HOME as well as sudo -u tomcat7 echo $JAVA_HOME. Tomcat still starts with the wrong version. Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 10:24
  • I can confirm that this does not help. Even if you put JAVA_HOME=your new java in the /etc/environment and reboot, and do the alternatives thing, tomcat still picks up the old version. Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 15:40
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I had the same issue. I am using tomcat 9. I decided to define the configurations in catalina.sh.

This is however for *nix

$ cd /apache-tomcat-9.0.21/bin/
$ vim catalina.sh

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.12
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.12

ensure to restart your tomcat

$ ./startup.sh
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    Modifying catalina.sh is not a good idea (it might get overwritten by an upgrade). Create a setenv.sh file in the same directory (it is sourced by catalina.sh whenever present). Commented Aug 30, 2021 at 9:17

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