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

For Debian distro we can override the setting via defaults

/etc/default/tomcat6

Set the JAVA_HOME pointing to the java version you want.

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64