Steps to set up Contour :

Step 1. Download and install Java JDK 6 X64 Windows version for Sun Java Site. X32 version JDK doesn't work for 64 bits machine.

Step 2. Download and install Tomcat 6 Windows version.

You have two options
a. Download the exe file. Tomcat will be installed as a service.

For 64 bits machine,  you need to replace tomcat/bin/tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe files with the ones in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/tags/TOMCAT_6_0_20/res/procrun/amd64/  Otherwise, the service will not work.

Note: look like you can't download the exe files from the above link anymore. We have copied these files to our server. They are for Tomcat 6.0.20. Here are the links:

http://www.jamasoftware.com/media/download/tomcat6.exe
http://www.jamasoftware.com/media/download/tomcat6w.exe

You may need to kill tomcat6 process to replace the files.

Configure your memory settings using tomcat/bin/tomcat6w.exe

b. Download the Zip file. Run startup.bat and shutdown.bat to start and stop Tomcat.

The memory settings for Java in both cases are like this:
-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Step 3. Install Contour.

Check List:
1. Installed version of Java
2. Tomcat installed as service or not
3. Memory configuration for Tomcat