Hi, I have installed tomcat 5.5 with the windows binary installer. Prior to commencing the installation, I installed J2SE RE 1.5 and pointed by JAVA_HOME to the installation location. When I installed tomcat, it went through fine and the server started as a service. No issues with this.
Next, I uninstalled the tomcat installation described above. Then I downloaded the zip variant of the same tomcat 5.5 version. Unzipped it and executed the startup script. But it reports a "Windows cannot find '-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderManager'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file….". Went though the release notes and RUNNING.txt. Both indicate the setup procedure for the binary installation only on windows. In fact the setup procedure (as at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html) for unix explicitly indicates 'Before running the script, the JAVA_HOME environment variable should be set to the base path of the JDK.'. Does this mean that the JDK is not required only for the windows binary installation? I think it may not be so. And that I may be doing something silly. Any pointer on how to get tomcat running with only the JRE using the zipped varient will greatly help. Thanks, Babu
