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Chris
Asked: 2009-08-20 15:24:35 +0800 CST

Which version of Java do I need for Tomcat 6?

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when installing Tomcat 6 (the latest version), it asks for the Java install directory, fair enough. But it seems to want Java version 5, which Sun is apparently end-of-life'ing, so for our environment that's not A Good Thing.

Here's its prompt, you can see it asks for version 5.0:

Tomcat

I guess what I'm asking is, can I run it against Java 6? I looked all over the tomcat website and found no mention of compatible java versions.

Thanks a lot

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    By looking at http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/ we can read 

    Tomcat 6.0 requires JRE 5.0. Read the RELEASE-NOTES and the RUNNING.txt file in the distribution for more details.

    If you open RELEASE-NOTES you will see

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Dependency Changes:
===================
Tomcat 6.0 is designed to run on JSE 5.0 and later.

    So it's should be fine.

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  2. I have run Tomcat 6.x on various releases of OpenJDK 7 without a hitch. The better message would have been that Tomcat 6.x cannot run on Java 1.4.x or older releases

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