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

[tony mancill]

On 10/06/2011 12:10 PM, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> 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.

I've made the change and tested locally - it seems fine, so I have
uploaded the new 7.0.22 release (thanks Miguel) with the additional
depends for tomcat7-common.

>> 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.

I'll take a look at tomcat6 next.

Thanks,
tony

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