Running from a service makes it a no brainer to start up tomcat when you reboot the machine as it does it automatically.
Disadvantages I would see is that it hides the console and makes it difficult to changes options like JAVA_OPTS. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2005 12:12 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat on Windows: advantages of running as a service? The "net start <service name>" and "net stop <service name>" commands will allow you to stop and start Windows services from the command line (and thus from a batch script). You can get the service name from the "Services" property window. On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 06:18, Tom Burke wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************** This E-mail may be confidential and may also be legally priviledged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately; You should not copy it or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its content to any person. E-mail may be subject to data corruption accidentally or deliberately. For this reaszon it is inappropriate to rely on advice contained in an e-mail without obtaining written confirmation of it first. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority ***************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
