Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I have the JWSDP installed and can start the tomcat
server with the startup script. However, I would like
other users to be able to start a server. From various
searches it appears that this should be possible by
specifying the environment variables CATALINA_BASE
and CATALINA_OPTS so that for example configuration files and log files are picked up from the users space. I have tried both of these in the
setenv script and exported them but to no avail both
are ignored at startup. I can start tomcat as another
user if I do this manually setting the -Dcatalina.base,
-Dcom.sun.launcher.outputFile and -Dcom.sun.launcher.errorFile explicitly but I'd rather
it worked with the environment variables. Anyone
have any ideas how to get this to work.

Kevin