I would like to be able to start and stop Tomcat from a Java program running on
a Windows machine. I looked at the contents of startup.bat, shutdown.bat and
catalina.bat, and it looks like one easy way to do that would be to set system
properties that correspond to the -D command line arguments as they are set up
in the script files, and then call Bootstrap.main with a list argument that
contains either "start" or "stop". When I tried this running my Java program in
Eclipse, the call to Bootstrap.main(new String[]{"start"}) did not return. I
don't understand why this is, because running startup.bat in a command prompt
window gets Tomcat running and then returns to a command prompt. Is there a way
to call Bootstrap.main(new String[]{"start"}) in an application's main thread
so that it returns and Tomcat continues running?
I also tried calling Bootstrap.main(new String[]{"start"}) in a separate
thread, but I must not have done it right, because when I call
Bootstrap.main(new String[]{"stop"}) it claims to stop Tomcat but there is
still a process listening on the port that I designated.
What is the best way to start and stop Tomcat programmatically from a Java
application? If it is better to do it using a different class, such as Tomcat
or Embedded, could someone point me to information about how to do that? I
tried using the Tomcat class recently and I couldn't get it to work either.
I am working with Tomcat 7.0.25 x64 on Windows 2008 Server.
Thanks,
Mike
