Change Tomcat's JDK Version

[junchen liu]

I use Tomcat 5.5.9 , and the JVM it uses java 5
how can I change the Java version to 6.0?
is there any configuration file which I can edit,
I tried server.xml or catalina.property file, they seem
not the right one. help please

Regards

[benjamin muktesh]

Go to tomcat/bin and modify the JAVA_HOME parmater in catalina.sh (for linux/unix) or catalina.bat (for windows)

[Bert Bertens]

benjamin muktesh wrote:Go to tomcat/bin and modify the JAVA_HOME parmater in catalina.sh (for linux/unix) or catalina.bat (for windows)

Ive been searching for days for this solution,
I've had this error and now it's solved:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Bad version number in .class file
for my Java Server Faces JSF beans which all gave errors.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Which JRE version and which JSF version are you using? JSF 1.2 requires at least Java 5 (since it's part of JEE 5), while JSF 2.0 requires Java 6 (since it's part of JEE 6).

Is there a class file version number given in the error message? Should be a number around 50.

[Bert Bertens]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:Which JRE version and which JSF version are you using? JSF 1.2 requires at least Java 5 (since it's part of JEE 5), while JSF 2.0 requires Java 6 (since it's part of JEE 6).

Is there a class file version number given in the error message? Should be a number around 50.

No I meant with my post that my problem was already solved. After googling my error I found that there's a JDK difference between Tomcat and Maven, so I just googled how to change Tomcat's JDK version and found this thread. But I had been searching long before I realised that the JDK difference was the problem (I had two JDK's on my pc and the system environment variable pointed to the outdated JDK, which Tomcat uses) so I thought I'd post the error message here so Googlers might end up here.

[Shashank Sharma]

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet RestServlet threw exception
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1815)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:872)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1325)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at org.restlet.engine.Engine.loadClass(Engine.java:242)

Hello I am struggling with the same error.
My server side application is using jdk 1.5 specification.
when I build it through eclipse 1.5 compliance setting and exporting it as a war file to the server tomcat web apps folder. I am getting the same error.
I have build the application using dynamic web project 2.4.
In project facets section I have following points checked.

1.Dynamic web module :2.4
2.Java :1.5

Will my windows environment variable affect the eclipse build settings??