How to run Tomcat on Windows ?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Jul 28 12:03:38 EDT 2016


> I suggest you take a look inside catalana.bat.  You should be able to get away
> with a
> 
> Java ........  start=org.apache.something
> 
> However if the problem is that Tomcat doesn't shut down that won't help
> (nor will running it as a service).

It's a classpath issue. Tomcat has no way to automate all that, Jetty does. So with Tomcat you get this script that piles up the classpath to run, whereas with Jetty start.jar takes care of it, and it's one jar on the path to start with.

-- Scott



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