On Mon, 21 May 2012, James Pifer wrote:
I know this question could be asked on tomcat or possibly other mailing lists, but I'm hoping I can get some help here instead of joining yet another list.
I'm running tomcat5 on CentOS 5.8. I'm trying to setup Oracle/Sun java rather than icedtea. I've installed the latest jdk 1.7 and setup alternatives on centos for java and javac:
# java -version java version "1.7.0_03" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.1-b02, mixed mode)
I've also set /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf to point JAVA_HOME to this jdk.
When I try to start tomcat5 I get:
Starting tomcat5: /usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find jdbc-stdext Java extension for this JVM
If you want to run Tomcat under Oracle's JVM, then you can't use the CentOS Tomcat; you'll need to download it directly from Apache.
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi
Note that Tomcat 5 reaches EOL later this year.