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when installing Tomcat 6 (the latest version), it asks for the Java install directory, fair enough. But it seems to want Java version 5, which Sun is apparently end-of-life'ing, so for our environment that's not A Good Thing.

Here's its prompt, you can see it asks for version 5.0:

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I guess what I'm asking is, can I run it against Java 6? I looked all over the tomcat website and found no mention of compatible java versions.

Thanks a lot

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I found at least two guys say it works with java 6: nabble.com/Re:-Tomcat-and-Java6-p8728729.html marakana.com/blog/cool-tech/tomcat-on-java-6.html – Chris Aug 19 '09 at 23:34
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By looking at http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/ we can read 

Tomcat 6.0 requires JRE 5.0. Read the RELEASE-NOTES and the RUNNING.txt file in the distribution for more details.

If you open RELEASE-NOTES you will see

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Dependency Changes:
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Tomcat 6.0 is designed to run on JSE 5.0 and later.

So it's should be fine.

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congratulations to apache/tomcat for making this information so easy to find. – Roy Rico Aug 19 '09 at 23:51
I'm hearing you roy. I would have expected something like "we test and offer paid support against java version X, Y, Z" – Chris Aug 20 '09 at 0:09
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You're right, if they could start by changing "Tomcat 6.0 requires JRE 5.0" by "Tomcat 6.0 requires JRE 5.0 or later" in all docs it would be a nice start. – radius Aug 20 '09 at 0:23
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Well, with some very limited testing, it seems to work fine with java 6. Thanks a lot – Chris Aug 20 '09 at 0:25
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I have run Tomcat 6.x on various releases of OpenJDK 7 without a hitch. The better message would have been that Tomcat 6.x cannot run on Java 1.4.x or older releases

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