Since the question is how to do this from Java, don't go shelling out net start/stop on Windows :) Use JNA (http://jna.dev.java.net) , someone just recently committed complete support for Windows services. Stopping a service looks like this:
W32ServiceManager serviceManager = new W32ServiceManager(); W32Service service = serviceManager.openService("tomcat", Winsvc.SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS); service.stopService(); service.close(); -dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:34 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Starting/Stopping Tomcat from Java program Hi. I do not really understand the issue here. If you are under Windows, with Tomcat running as a Service, then you can just run the commands "net start tomcat6" / "net stop tomcat6" to start/stop tomcat. If you are under Linux, then you can just issue the command "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 (start|stop)". Under most Unixes, the procedure is similar. So where is the problem ? Rob Gregory wrote: > I call the scripts via code to both stop and start Tomcat. There is a > problem with even calling these scripts via Unix unless you change > (cd) into the bin directory before running startup.sh as the log paths > are generated relative to the startup.sh location. > > > String strCatalinaBin = System.getenv("CATALINA_HOME") + "\\bin\\"; > File objDir = new File(strCatalinaBin); > r = Runtime.getRuntime(); > p = r.exec(new String[] { "cmd.exe", "/C", "start", strCatalinaBin + > "catalina.bat", "start" }, null, objDir); > > p.waitFor(); > p.destroy(); > > Hope this helps. > Rob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Karthik Nanjangude [mailto:karthik.nanjang...@xius-bcgi.com] >> Sent: 11 October 2010 13:26 >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: RE: Starting/Stopping Tomcat from Java program >> >> Hi >> >> Probably u may need to use Embedded version of TOMCAT to do this > activity... >> >> >> With regards >> karthik >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: kshitij chandrasen [mailto:kshtjchnd...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 2:49 PM >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org >> Subject: Starting/Stopping Tomcat from Java program >> >>> Hi, >>> I've to write methods on calling which i'd be able to start and stop > the >> tomcat app server. I tried this - >>> I'm using Tomcat 6.0.26. >>> String[] command = new String[4]; >>> >>> command[0] = "cmd"; >>> command[1] = "/C"; >>> command[2] = "startup.bat"; >>> command[3] = "C:\\"; >>> String x[] = {"PATH=C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software > Foundation\\Apache >> Tomcat 6.0.26\\bin","CATALINA_HOME=C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software >> Foundation\\Apache Tomcat 6.0.26","JAVA_HOME=C:\\Program >> Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_21","JRE_HOME=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre6"}; >>> Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command,x); >>> >>> This gives me a strange windows error saying - The system cannot > find the >> file -Djava.util.logging.config.file="C:\Program Files\Apache >> Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 6.0.26\conf\logging.properties", >> while it > actually >> exists. >>> If instead of setting the path, I give the absolute path of > startup.bat in >> command[3], it works fine - >>> Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /C start >> C:\\broadway\\bat\\startup.bat"); //I copied the startup.bat to a > folder and >> ran it from there, it worked fine. >>> Please give me pointers to the right direction! >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kshitij Chandrasen >>> Engineer, Software Engineering, >>> Cisco Systems, CBSBU Engineering. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Kshitij Chandrasen >> Engineer, Software Engineering, >> Cisco Systems, CBSBU Engineering. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org