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.

It

Answer 1

Make JAVA_HOME as system variable instead of environment variable, restart application(Tomcat). It should work fine.

Alternatively you might be facing same issue as discussed here