How to run Tomcat on Windows ?

[Rod Widdowson]

> 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.

Ah right.  Shades of the old aacli.bat in V1 and 2.  

So to rewind to the top the real issue isn't how we are starting tomcat, it
is that it doesn't shut down cleanly on windows.  Tomcat.exe is going to do
the same as catalina.bat...