Re: Tomcat on V6?

[Pete Hall <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:55:37 -0800, James Lampert wrote:

> We've had good results with Tomcat 6.
>
> But then we tried Tomcat 7, and the "Catalina" job hung (after bringing
> up Tomcat itself, but evidently while bringing up the sample webapps),
> leaving an exception in catalina.out:
>
> WARNING: Failed to scan
> [file:/QIBM/UserData/Java400/ext/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar] from classloader
> hierarchy
> Throwable occurred: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip
> file
> at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
>
>
> and looking up "/QIBM/UserData/Java400/ext/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar," I find
> that it's a SYMLNK that apparently goes nowhere:
>
> db2_classes.jar        SYMLNK->STMF
> db2routines_classe >   SYMLNK->STMF
> eim.jar                SYMLNK->STMF
> eimos400.jar           SYMLNK->STMF
> jdbc2_0-stdext.jar     SYMLNK
> jta-spec1_0_1.jar      SYMLNK
> runtime.zip            SYMLNK->STMF
>
>
> Anybody know what's going on here?

What version of Java? Tomcat 7 requires Java 1.6 or better. Tomcat 6 was 
supposed to run with Java 1.5. There's also a jdk6 version of JT400 
that's the same deal. Attempting to run on Java 1.5 or less causes bad 
things to happen.