Apache Tomcat 7 is unique compared to prior releases as it supports the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications. However, make note that Tomcat 7 requires Java 1.6 or higher.
If you download the Tomcat 7 Windows binary, the process for installation is pretty straight-forward – double click the setup icon and go through the motions. Unfortunately, there is one additional step you may need to take – make sure the “JAVA_HOME” environment variable is set to the JDK path and the “JRE_HOME” environment variable is set to the JRE path. Actually, you only need to set one to get Tomcat to work, but I like to set both because some apps depend on one or the other.
Also, if you didn’t install the application as a service, make it easy on yourself and create a batch file with the below commands. Now you can simply double click the file and you’re right where you want to be for starting and shutting down the server.
cd C:\[path_to_your_apache_server_folder]\bin
cmd
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