Tomcat on Windows: advantages of running as a service?

[Tom Burke]

I'm running Tomcat 5.0.28 on a Windows 2003 server, and I need to 
automatically shut it down & restart it. One way is to control it via 
shutdown.bat & startup.bat, and run these as scheduled tasks at (say) 
3:30am and 3:31am. However, I've noticed that while shutdown.bat will 
shut it down if it was previously started as a service, startup.bat 
won't run it as a service, it starts it at a command prompt.

My question is: does this matter? If I'm running on Windows are there 
any advantages to running Tomcat as a service? Or disadvantages to 
running from the command prompt? The server is dedicated to tomcat, by 
the way.

Tom Burke 


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