I'm running Solr with the default Jetty setup on Windows. If I start solr with "java -jar start.jar" from a command window, then I can cleanly shut down Solr/Jetty by hitting Control-C. In particular, this causes the shutdown hook to execute, which appears to be important.
However, I don't especially want to run Solr from a command window. Instead, I want to launch it from a scheduled task, which does the "java -jar start.jar" in a non-interactive way and which does not bring up a command window. If I were on unix I could use the kill command to send an appropriate signal to the JVM, but I gather this doesn't work on Windows. As such, what is the proper way to cleanly shut down Solr/Jetty on Windows, if they are not running in a command window? The main way I know how to kill Solr right now if it's running outside a command window is to go to the Windows task manager and kill the java.exe process there. But this seems to kill java immediately, so I'm doubtful that the shutdown hook is getting executed. I found a couple of threads through Google suggesting that Jetty now has a stop.jar script that's capable of stopping Jetty in a clean way across platforms. Is this maybe the best option? If so, would it be possible to include stop.jar in the Solr example/ directory?
