I've seen several queries about running Catalina as an NT service but didn't find any clear replies, at least regarding using the jk_nt_service.exe.
I got it working, but it was all pure guesswork. Maybe someone who knows something about this can add some information or, BETTER STILL, add some information to Catalina about running it as an NT service. I started with the directions for Tomcat 3.2 and jk_nt_service.exe http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/NT-Service-howto.html I made the following additions/changes to wrapper.properties: The only thing I found I needed in the classpath was bootstrap.jar: wrapper.class_path=$(wrapper.tomcat_home)\bin\bootstrap.jar The startup class is different: wrapper.startup_class=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap I added some flags and other changes to the startup command. I didn't test to see if these are really all needed. The SAXParser one is probably only needed if your app uses it and you don't explicitly name the parser class. The -Xrs switch is probably only needed for JDK 1.3.1 to keep the service from dying (??) Note the "start" on the end. Broken across multiple lines here for clarity: wrapper.cmd_line=$(wrapper.javabin) -Xrs -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser -Dcatalina.home="C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0-rc2" -classpath $(wrapper.class_path) $(wrapper.startup_class) -config $(wrapper.server_xml) start Frank Lawlor Athens Group, Inc. (512) 345-0600 x151 Athens Group, an employee-owned consulting firm integrating technology strategy and software solutions.
