Bugzilla Bug 180474

while only a minor change I think it would be helpful if the GENTOO_VM
enviroment var was exported from the conf.d file by default (but still
commented)

The current conf.d/tomcat-5.5 file has the lines
# Example: GENTOO_VM="sun-jdk-1.5"

#GENTOO_VM="sun-jdk-1.5"


it would be nicer as:
# Example: export GENTOO_VM="sun-jdk-1.5"

#export GENTOO_VM="sun-jdk-1.5"

It took me a while to figure out that the conf.d file was not being sourced
within the script and required me to export the var

this should probably be done for other vars in the file as well, or be sure to
source the file properly in the init script

same for 6.x it seems

alternatively to export, you can alter init script like nelchael did with
resin:
        JAVA_HOME=$(java-config -O)
        [ -n "${GENTOO_VM}" ] && JAVA_HOME=$(java-config
--select-vm="${GENTOO_VM}" -O)

Fixed in 5.5.23-r6 and 6.0.13-r3, closing bug.