How to install Tomcat 8 ZIP as a Windows XP service?

Question

I'm creating a .exe bundle to install all my projects in the client machine. In order to do that, I have downloaded all projects in .zip format, so I can copy it to the bundle (using Inno Setup ).

The point is that I'm trying to install Tomcat 8 as a service, so I have downloaded it in zip format like the other projects. But in every way I've tried to install it as a Windows XP service, it returned the following message:

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

When I use a JDK installation it works fine, but I need it to use a JRE installation because all my operation team install features with JRE and we can't change the company patterns in order to do this.

Can someone, please, help me?

Answer 1

If you want to use JRE instead of JDK for Tomcat, you need to set JRE_HOME instead of JAVA_HOME. See RUNNING.txt