How to change Java version used by TOMCAT?

Question

I have Java 1.6 and Tomcat 5.5 installed on my system.

But Tomcat 5.5 accesses Java 1.5 and hence as the outcome I get the error Bad version number in .class f

Answer 1

On Linux, Tomcat7 has a configuration file located at:

/etc/sysconfig/tomcat7

... which is where server specific configurations should be made. You can set the JAVA_HOME env variable here w/o needing to create a profile.d/ script.

This worked for me.