Tomcat would start

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 7/19/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Get Sun Java SDK and remove java-gcj.
> >
> It's not quite _that_ simple - Tomcat is intended to find any of the free
> Java options.  If you use Sun Java, you need to explicitly provide
> JAVA_HOME (in /etc/defaults/tomcat5).
> --
> derek

And I think the easy way to do that (going from memory here) is:

sudo update-alternatives --configure java

And choosing the Sun one out of the list.

-Eamonn