Tomcat: How to find out running tomcat version

Question

I\'m trying to get Appfuse + tomcat + jRebel working.

Appfuse by default uses Cargo to download tomcat (ver. 7.0.33) and deploy the application to it. I wish to use

Answer 1

In Unix-like environments, I also recommend checking the actual running process command line:

$ ps aux | grep java

...
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/srv/tomcat-instances/bla/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx4096M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx4096m -Xms4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8090 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=8090 -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.47/endorsed -classpath /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.47/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.47/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/srv/tomcat-instances/bla -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.47 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat8-bla-tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
...

One can run on subtle weird behaviors due to (operating system) environment variables and (Java) system properties being set to unexpected values. I had a situation where due to an outdated Tomcat setenv.sh, A Tomcat 8 started with classes from a Tomcat 7 on the classpath. Make sure that in the process command line options such as -Dcatalina.base, -Dcatalina.home and -classpath make sense.