Setting up Tomcat 7 on server: “NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not JRE”… Why?

Question

I\'m trying to set up Tomcat 6 on my server instance (Fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise). I want to make a Java EE service available via a URL.

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Answer 1

Web containers require JDK in order to support compilation of sources like JSP, as compiler is existing in JDK it requires the same.(this is one of the reasons why it may require JDK)