[CentOS] Tomcat5 with Oracle/Sun jdk on CentOS 5.8

[Paul Heinlein]

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.

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