Add JVM options in Tomcat

As Bhavik Shah says, you can do it in JAVA_OPTS, but the recommended way (as per catalina.sh) is to use CATALINA_OPTS:

#   CATALINA_OPTS   (Optional) Java runtime options used when the "start",
#                   "run" or "debug" command is executed.
#                   Include here and not in JAVA_OPTS all options, that should
#                   only be used by Tomcat itself, not by the stop process,
#                   the version command etc.
#                   Examples are heap size, GC logging, JMX ports etc.

#   JAVA_OPTS       (Optional) Java runtime options used when any command
#                   is executed.
#                   Include here and not in CATALINA_OPTS all options, that
#                   should be used by Tomcat and also by the stop process,
#                   the version command etc.
#                   Most options should go into CATALINA_OPTS.

Set it in the JAVA_OPTS variable in [path to tomcat]/bin/catalina.sh. Under windows there is a console where you can set it up or you use the catalina.bat.

JAVA_OPTS=-agentpath:C:\calltracer\jvmti\calltracer5.dll=traceFile-C:\calltracer\call.trace,filterFile-C:\calltracer\filters.txt,outputType-xml,usage-uncontrolled -Djava.library.path=C:\calltracer\jvmti -Dcalltracerlib=calltracer5

After checking catalina.sh (for windows use the .bat versions of everything mentioned below)

#   Do not set the variables in this script. Instead put them into a script
#   setenv.sh in CATALINA_BASE/bin to keep your customizations separate.

Also this

#   CATALINA_OPTS   (Optional) Java runtime options used when the "start",
#                   "run" or "debug" command is executed.
#                   Include here and not in JAVA_OPTS all options, that should
#                   only be used by Tomcat itself, not by the stop process,
#                   the version command etc.
#                   Examples are heap size, GC logging, JMX ports etc

So create a setenv.sh under CATALINA_BASE/bin (same dir where the catalina.sh resides). Edit the file and set the arguments to CATALINA_OPTS

For e.g. the file would look like this if you wanted to change the heap size

CATALINA_OPTS=-Xmx512m

Or in your case since you're using windows setenv.bat would be

set CATALINA_OPTS=-agentpath:C:\calltracer\jvmti\calltracer5.dll=traceFile-C:\calltracer\call.trace,filterFile-C:\calltracer\filters.txt,outputType-xml,usage-uncontrolled -Djava.library.path=C:\calltracer\jvmti -Dcalltracerlib=calltracer5

To clear the added options later just delete setenv.bat/sh

For this you need to run the "tomcat6w" application that is part of the standard Tomcat distribution in the "bin" directory. E.g. for windows the default is "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin\tomcat6w.exe". The "tomcat6w" application starts a GUI. If you select the "Java" tab you can enter all Java options.

It is also possible to pass JVM options via the command line to tomcat. For this you need to use the command:

<tomcatexecutable> //US//<tomcatservicename> ++JvmOptions="<JVMoptions>"

where "tomcatexecutable" refers to your tomcat application, "tomcatservicename" is the tomcat service name you are using and "JVMoptions" are your JVM options. For instance:

"tomcat6.exe" //US//tomcat6 ++JvmOptions="-XX:MaxPermSize=128m" 

if you want to set jvm args on eclipse you can use below:

see below two links to accomplish it:

1. eclipse setting to pass jvm args to java
2. eclipse setting to pass jvm args to java and adding to run config on eclipse
   

And for Tomcat you can create a setenv.bat file in bin folder of Tomcat and add below lines to it :

echo "hello im starting setenv"
set CATALINA_OPTS=-DNLP.home=${NLP.home} -Dhostname=${hostname}