RE: How to make Tomcat shutdown itself if the address it is trying to bind is already in use.

Thank you Gregor for the links. We are trying not to modify the Tomcat code at this point to avoid regression testing. We decided to change our Tomcat startup scripts to check for port issues and restart the server since this is the least intrusive change at this point in our release cycle. Thank

RE: How to make Tomcat shutdown itself if the address it is trying to bind is already in use.

Thank you Gregor for the suggestion. I was trying to see if there is a way to do this from within my application code which is running under Tomcat. The issue is that I don't have direct control over the scripts that start Tomcat. Thanks Shaji -Original Message- From: Gregor Schneider [

AJP port - How to stop Tomcat from incrementing the AJP port number

When Tomcat 6 finds that the specified AJP port is already in use, it increments the port number and try to bind to the next available port. When this happens, on the web server side apache is not able to connect to the AJP port on Tomcat side, because Tomcat is listening on a different AJP port