I'm having trouble starting Tomcat 5 from within MyEclipse. When I click on the Run/Stop Servers -> Tomcat -> Start button I get the following error:

A configuration occurred during startup please verify: Tomcat JDK name

So, I went to Window->Preferences->MyEclipse->Application Servers->Tomcat->JDK.

I had a entry that I created a couple days ago that I'm pretty sure pointed to the JRE included with J2SDK_1.4.1_01 (at least that's what I named it). Unfortunately there is no way to verify this in this dialog.

So, I added another Tomcat JDK name that I'm sure points to the above referenced JRE. (Note that there is no way to delete such entries.) I still got the same error when I tried to start Tomcat.

I'm missing something. Can you tell me what?

Thanks,

Chris

Chris,

Yep, you're missing that it really needs to be a JDK, not a JRE or a JRE within a JDK. Just modify your existing JDK installs so that instead of pointing to the JRE subdirectory within the JDK, they point to the JDK root directory itself. Then you should be good to go.

--Scott
MyEclipse Support

That did it. I guess it's been a long week. Thanks for the quick reply.

No problem. The whole JDK / JRE thing is a subtle point at best. :-)

--Scott
MyEclipse Support