How to set JAVA_HOME for multiple Tomcat instances?

Question

I have 2 Java Web Projects. One runs on JDK 1.5 and the other runs on JDK 1.6. I want to run both of them on the same computer, but the JAVA_HOME environment variable can on

Answer 1

I had the same problem my OS is windows 8 and I am using Tomcat 8, I just edited the setclasspath.bat file in bin folder and set JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME like this...

@echo off
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set "JRE_HOME=%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre8"
set "JAVA_HOME=%ProgramFiles%\Java\jdk1.7.0_03"
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and it works fine for me now......