2011/1/21 Adib <amsl...@gmail.com>:
> I am wondering why does tomcat need a shut down port on windows but
> not on Unix. My guess is that UNIX has support for signals and on
> shutdown you can do kill -3 to get the JVM to shutdown but windows
> they can't for some reason. If anyone can shed some light on this for
> me, it would be great, I am sure there are others wondering why the
> shutdown port is needed.

You are running it as a Service? It is not needed in 6.0.30+, and in
earlier versions as well, but see
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49195

If you are using bat files or running from withing an IDE the port
will be needed.

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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