Hello, I'm new to Jenkins and so far I love it...but I have an issue integrating with Tomcat. I have Jenkins stopping and starting Tomcat via ant script. However I've found that Jenkins process-killer shuts down tomcat for me after it's finished. I've read https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ProcessTreeKiller and have tried to disable it, however I run Jenkins through Tomcat, and I'm not sure how to disable the process killer when Jenkins is run as a simple web app on Tomcat 7. I tried to simply override the BUILD_ID variable like this:
$BUILD_ID=dontKillMe to no avail. Even if that worked though, I'm wondering if there is a "cleaner" solution to starting and stopping Tomcat with Jenkins. When using ANT to start/stop it usually works, but not 100% every time. I've read about a tomcat plugin for Jenkins, but I think it doesn't stop/start Tomcat in the order I need it...basically my build script does a code checkout, compile, stop tomcat, replace war, start tomcat, run tests against newly deployed web app. Does anybody know the "correct" way to interact with Tomcat and Jenkins? Thanks Pedro
