 <p>From <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4072260/how-to-change-java-version-used-by-tomcat">here</a>:</p> <p>When you open catalina.sh / catalina.bat, you can see :</p> <pre><code>Environment Variable Prequisites JAVA_HOME Must point at your Java Development Kit installation. </code></pre> <p>So, set your environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to Java 7. Also make sure JRE_HOME is pointing to the same target, if it is set.</p> <p>You may not have this same issue, but if you do, it could be helpful to know ; )</p>