[mratcliffe]

Hi

Quick question on Tomcat 5.0

Plaform:
Tomcat 5.0.25
WinXP
Myeclipse 3.8.4
Eclipse 3.0.1

My Tomcat 5 installed in windows as a “service” and is setup to start on auto on bootup. I am confused about how the start / stop works inside of myeclipse. If I press the “stop tomcat” icon, Tomcat stops and the Windows service gui shows it as stopped. I then press the “start tomcat” icon, Tomcat starts and works just fine from a browser, but the window service gui still shows it as being stopped. Even if I wait a bit and try and refresh.

The reason I am asking this is that I have ant ant build script that also tests tomcat (starting and stopping) and this test is failing and I am trying to find the problem.

Any clues or suggestions?

[Riyad Kalla]

Starting/Stopping tomcat from the command line (same as MyEclipse) and doing it as a Windows service are not meant to interact with eachother appropriately. I would encourage you to simply ignore the service, set it to manual and stop it and forget about it, OR from now on just download the Tomcat ZIPs for each release, after you configure it’s location in MyEclipse it starts/stops just fine. I would consider that best since it is more “vanilla” and you aren’t going to spin your tires doing work like this trying to figure out who/what/when/where/why some installer specific detail isn’t working quite right.

[mratcliffe]

I agree about moving on and not spinning my tires. I just needed to verify this detail.
Thanks

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