Kees de Kooter wrote: > If I recall correctly Tomcat 5 and lower need a JDK to run, not a JRE.
Not quite correct. Tomcat 5.5.x uses the Eclipse JDT compiler so it only requires a JRE. Tomcat 4.1.x normally requires a JDK although if you pre-compile your JSPs it will run quite happily on a JRE. Mark > > Cheers, > Kees de Kooter > http://www.boplicity.net > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:39, alex_m > <alexander.tolfmans-mar...@systeam.se> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have a RedHat server that with Tomcat5.5.18 and java (JRE) 1.6.0. When i >> tries to start the tomcat server it fails and i get this output in the >> Catalina.out file. (this is not due to this bug: >> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/s...g.cgi?id=45983) >> >> Any clues? >> >> BR >> Alex >> >> From Catalina.out: >> >> Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5 >> Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5 >> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp >> Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java/jre >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: \ >> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: \ >> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) >> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) >> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) >> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) >> Could not find the main class: \. Program will exit. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/java.lang.ClassNotFoundException-when-starting-tomcat-tp21827180p21827180.html >> Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
