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Passing JVM arguments to Tomcat when running as a service?

I need to pass a couple of JVM arguments to the JVM which Tomcat is running in so that my application can pick them up.

I want to follow the process outlined in this article to pick up environment variables.

How would I go about doing this?

UPDATE Sorry This is running under windows (7 on my Dev machine 2003 on client server)

Solution

  • You need to edit the Windows service. There are three ways to do this:

    1. Start Tomcat5w with //MS//ServiceName to get an icon in the system tray which gives you a quick access to the configuration of the service.

    2. Open the service manager in the "Control Panel". There is an entry for Tomcat.

    In the editor, there is a tab where you can add additional JVM parameters.

    The third way (which I prefer) is to write a script which edits the config for you. This way, you can save the config somewhere for backup. See the docs how to do that (Hint: use tomcat5 //US//...)