Thanks Mark cjb> I upgraded Java from 8u181 to 8u191 on our dev (JDK) and test (JRE) cjb> Windows 2012 servers today. After doing so, the Tomcat 8.5(.32) cjb> Windows services would no longer start. Removing and re-adding cjb> the service fixed the service. I don't remember having to re-install cjb> the TC Windows services after upgrading Java previously. Is that normal?
mt> It is one way to fix the problem. You need to reconfigure where the mt> service looks for the JRE. Normally you'd do that with Tomcat[7|8|9]w.exe Wow, I actually did not know that. I feel a bit embarrassed not knowing something that basic. Did you notice my ApacheCon badge? "Tomcat Newbie". :-) Then again, why doesn't the service just use the JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME environment vars? Is that so there can be multiple services running with different versions of Java simultaneously? -- Cris Berneburg CACI Lead Software Engineer
