Tomcat running on Intellij doesn't seem to find the right path to JAVA

Question

Introduction

I've been assigned to an old Java Facets application, and in order to do my work I have to do a reverse ingeneering task first, hence running the project on my machine.

Problem

So the project seems to build fine and it's supposed to run on a Tomcat 7 server but it's been 3 days now and i've tried pratically everything I could think of to fix this single output :

/home//.jdks/temurin-17.0.3/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /tmp/classpath1653361017.jar com.intellij.javaee.oss.process.JavaeeProcess 40057 org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.agent.TomEEAgent
/home//apache-tomee-plume-7.0.9/bin/catalina.sh run
[2022-05-11 09:49:54,280] Artifact MyProject:war exploded: Waiting for server connection to start artifact deployment...
/home/azesa/apache-tomee-plume-7.0.9/bin/catalina.sh: line 427: /var/lib/snapd/snap/intellij-idea-ultimate/353/bin/java: No such file or directory
Disconnected from server

Stuff I tried

• I tried to manually configure the catalina.sh but ended up breaking it.
• I changed the /etc/profile file and added two export statements one of the JAVA_HOME and the other for the CATALINA_HOME
• I have also copied the WAR file in the /webapps directory trying to run doirectly, but it's too messy and it oesn't seem to work
  

Please HELP

Answer 1

To run TomEE 7, you need to use Java 7 or Java 8.

Your log indicate, that you try to run with Java 17, which won't work. Java 17 ist only supported in TomEE 8.0.11 (Jakarta EE 8) or TomEE 9.0.0+M8-SNAPSHOT (Jakarta EE 9.1).

In addition, it looks like your Environment variables (JAVA_HOME) point to a non existing Java executable.