Howdy,
You have options that check slightly different things:
- Ping tomcat's port: checks the server is up, accepting request on the
port you check
- Specify a CATALINA_PID file, have your standalone program check for
presence of this file
- Write out your own file from your webapp, have your sta
Look in your Tomcat/conf/server.xml file. Is there an uncommented
service tag like the following?
This instructs Tomcat to run standalone.
Also, you can confirm this by looking at Tomcat output when it is
stated. When tomcat starts it will write to standard out (logs in Unix
or output window
