Bug#644340: tomcat7: action "start" failed: no JDK found - please set JAVA_HOME

[Miguel Landaeta]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:24 AM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I think that this highlights a couple of issues:
>
> 1) The long term future of the sun jre/jdk in Debian - if and when it
> gets removed from non-free then quite a few of those paths are going
> to be obsolete.

That's right.

> 2) The fact that none of the tomcat7 packages actually depend on a
> java runtime environment - it actually gets pulled in by
> libcommons-dbcp-java which is not right (can't believe I've not
> noticed that before...)

In my case, the java runtime was introduced by libecj-java that has
a recommends on default-jre-headless.

> I think we should introduce a dependency on default-jre-headless |
> java-5-runtime | java-6-runtime in tomcat7-common and switch to using
> /usr/lib/jvm/default-java.  That way we are saying that this is the
> supported/tested jre from Debian.

Agreed.

> If someone wants to download a different JRE/JDK from Oracle thats
> fine - and we should let them set an appropriate JAVA_HOME through
> /etc/default/tomcat7 is they want to go down this route - it looks
> like this is already supported in the package and overrides JDK_DIRS.

Agreed.

> The above also applies to the tomcat6 package.

I also noticed that. I cloned this bugreport for tomcat6.

Cheers,

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