Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Hmm if you have a memory leak in the application perhaps you can profile it using a profiler. Try the one in eclipse and attach as a remote client to the vm running tomcat. On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) - Original Message From: Johnny Kewl [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need thread dumps Start TC from the BAT file. When you need a dump... press ctrl + break from term window... easier than Jstack...
RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Check Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool www.eclipse.org/mat/. This is alternate to JMAP, but it can parse the hprof file faster and have a very visual GUI. Thanks Suren -Original Message- From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:40 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) OK... I couldnt resist giving it a little go... JHat is exactly what you looking for... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/02/using_mu stangs.html Well done Sun... its exactly what I've been looking for... Let the server run a little do a dump, run the server and then from the browser to the HIST option... The highest non Sun class... webapp class... is going to be the bad guy ;) Damn thats nice... -- - HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm -- - - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
OOPS It's alternate to JHAT and not JMAP. Suren -Original Message- From: Surendrakumar Viswanathan -X (suviswan - HCL at Cisco) Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:25 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Check Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool www.eclipse.org/mat/. This is alternate to JMAP, but it can parse the hprof file faster and have a very visual GUI. Thanks Suren -Original Message- From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:40 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) OK... I couldnt resist giving it a little go... JHat is exactly what you looking for... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/02/using_mu stangs.html Well done Sun... its exactly what I've been looking for... Let the server run a little do a dump, run the server and then from the browser to the HIST option... The highest non Sun class... webapp class... is going to be the bad guy ;) Damn thats nice... -- - HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm -- - - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
- Original Message - From: Surendrakumar Viswanathan -X (suviswan - HCL at Cisco) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:55 AM Subject: RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Check Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool www.eclipse.org/mat/. This is alternate to JMAP, but it can parse the hprof file faster and have a very visual GUI. Thanks Suren Cool, if people just chat about how they find these out of mem errors, this will become a very cool thread... Up until I discovered these tools, it seems such a black hit and miss art. ... before this I actually cant think of anything that let one peek inside those class loaders... short of writing your own code... In earlier threads there are also guys trying to figure out why TC wont let go... it holds... and I'm wondering if JHat wouldnt be able to help in those area's as well... ... its this class that wont let go... etc. ... it looks really nice ... did it help you, did you find the leak? --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Thanks again for all of our suggestions. The Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool looks very interesting and helpful. It also calls out the JAVA_OPT -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError to auto generate a heap dump for me. I was originally looking for a way to automatically generate a thread dump, but this will be extremely helpful as well. Another alternative to JHAT is Sun's new free tool, Visual VM. I think JHAT is part of its underlying technology. Visual VM now ships with Sun JDK 1.6.0_07 and later, and is available via download separately from https://visualvm.dev.java.net/ I believe that VisualVM will eventually replace Sun's Jconsole, as it has all of Jconsole's functionality as well as heap dump, thread dump, and basic profiler functionality. It seems to have some of the functionality that is in Eclipse MAT. Not sure of the pro's and con's of one vs. the other though. I plan on looking at both. Thanks again, Brian - Original Message From: Surendrakumar Viswanathan -X (suviswan - HCL at Cisco) To: Surendrakumar Viswanathan -X (suviswan - HCL at Cisco) Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:56:05 AM Subject: RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows OOPS It's alternate to JHAT and not JMAP. Suren -Original Message- From: Surendrakumar Viswanathan -X (suviswan - HCL at Cisco) Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:25 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Check Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool www.eclipse.org/mat/. This is alternate to JMAP, but it can parse the hprof file faster and have a very visual GUI. Thanks Suren -Original Message- From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:40 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) OK... I couldnt resist giving it a little go... JHat is exactly what you looking for... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/02/using_mu stangs.html Well done Sun... its exactly what I've been looking for... Let the server run a little do a dump, run the server and then from the browser to the HIST option... The highest non Sun class... webapp class... is going to be the bad guy ;) Damn thats nice... -- - HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
- Original Message - From: Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:11 PM Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Thanks again for all of our suggestions. The Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool looks very interesting and helpful. It also calls out the AVA_OPT -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError to auto generate a heap dump for me. I was originally looking for a way to automatically generate a thread dump, but this will be extremely helpful as well. Another alternative to JHAT is Sun's new free tool, Visual VM. I think JHAT is part of its underlying technology. Visual VM now ships with Sun JDK 1.6.0_07 and later, and is available via download separately from https://visualvm.dev.java.net/ I believe that VisualVM will eventually replace Sun's Jconsole, as it has all of Jconsole's functionality as well as heap dump, thread dump, and basic profiler functionality. It seems to have some of the functionality that is in Eclipse MAT. Not sure of the pro's and con's of one vs. the other though. I plan on looking at both. Thanks again, Brian VisualVM... damn its nice... --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
- Original Message - From: Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:58 AM Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) Oh... I dont know if trying to find the issue on production server is going to be easy... Out Of Mem ... scary start praying that it is, one of your apps... Normally JMeter and a quiet system is the easiet way to find which one is the problem... The later JDK's 6 do what you looking for... google for JHAT... here ... http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/share/jhat.html Notice the HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError java option... And also check out JMX, JConsole you may find all that useful... esp the force heap garbage collection option. Another rough guide is runs the various web-apps thru the browser... and watch the window handles... not the memory... If that keeps sliding up... thats the bad webapp... trouble with all the Java monitoring stuff is that unless a GC is done (at least twice), what you looking at doesnt mean much I've never tried the JHat stuff... but they made it because OOM errors are a nightmare... let us know if JHat is the thing we all being waiting for ;) Good Luck ;) --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) OK... I couldnt resist giving it a little go... JHat is exactly what you looking for... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/02/using_mustangs.html Well done Sun... its exactly what I've been looking for... Let the server run a little do a dump, run the server and then from the browser to the HIST option... The highest non Sun class... webapp class... is going to be the bad guy ;) Damn thats nice... --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Hello, I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to hide the JVM instance. Java doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against the Tomcat PID but it errored out. Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on Win2k3? BTW: I can get a stack dump using a tool like Sun's VisualVM, but I wanted to use jstack as part of a script, which I obviously can't do with VisualVM. Thanks, Brian
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Brian Clark wrote: Hello, I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to hide the JVM instance. Java doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against the Tomcat PID but it errored out. Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on Win2k3? I can't answer your question, but a look here might provide a clue : http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html That seems to be the way in which Tomcat is now implemented under Windows. Versions prior to 5.5 used to have a structure similar to the Unix version, with startup.bat and catalina.bat invoking Tomcat via Java, but that seems to have changed nowadays. Also, if it might help somewhat : open a command window and navigate to the Tomcat/bin directory. Then, instead of running tomcat as a service, just enter the tomcatx.exe command (where x is probably 6 in your case) (not the tomcatxW.exe). That will run Tomcat in the command window, maybe easier for you to figure out what is going on. Not for me though. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
André Warnier wrote: Brian Clark wrote: Hello, I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to hide the JVM instance. Java doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against the Tomcat PID but it errored out. Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on Win2k3? I can't answer your question, but a look here might provide a clue : http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html That seems to be the way in which Tomcat is now implemented under Windows. Versions prior to 5.5 used to have a structure similar to the Unix version, with startup.bat and catalina.bat invoking Tomcat via Java, but that seems to have changed nowadays. Also, if it might help somewhat : open a command window and navigate to the Tomcat/bin directory. Then, instead of running tomcat as a service, just enter the tomcatx.exe command (where x is probably 6 in your case) (not the tomcatxW.exe). That will run Tomcat in the command window, maybe easier for you to figure out what is going on. Not for me though. Addendum : I just had another look at the Tomcat site. For version 5.5, there are 2 downloads for Windows : one is a zip, the other an msi installer. I must have in the past downloaded and installed the msi. I downloaded the zip version now, and that one seems to contain the usual startup.bat and catalina.bat files, in addition to the Win32 tomcat5 and tomcat5W executables. Maybe the .bat files allow to start Tomcat in the traditional way, via Java etc.. ? - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
I would steer clear of any windowsInstaller messWithYourRegistry windows specific utilities and/or programs SET JAVA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereJavaIsInstalled SET CATALINA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereTomcatIsInstalled SET JAVA_OPTS=whatever java options you need to set then java -jar bootstrap.jar works on every platform Martin __ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:42:42 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows André Warnier wrote: Brian Clark wrote: Hello, I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to hide the JVM instance. Java doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against the Tomcat PID but it errored out. Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on Win2k3? I can't answer your question, but a look here might provide a clue : http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html That seems to be the way in which Tomcat is now implemented under Windows. Versions prior to 5.5 used to have a structure similar to the Unix version, with startup.bat and catalina.bat invoking Tomcat via Java, but that seems to have changed nowadays. Also, if it might help somewhat : open a command window and navigate to the Tomcat/bin directory. Then, instead of running tomcat as a service, just enter the tomcatx.exe command (where x is probably 6 in your case) (not the tomcatxW.exe). That will run Tomcat in the command window, maybe easier for you to figure out what is going on. Not for me though. Addendum : I just had another look at the Tomcat site. For version 5.5, there are 2 downloads for Windows : one is a zip, the other an msi installer. I must have in the past downloaded and installed the msi. I downloaded the zip version now, and that one seems to contain the usual startup.bat and catalina.bat files, in addition to the Win32 tomcat5 and tomcat5W executables. Maybe the .bat files allow to start Tomcat in the traditional way, via Java etc.. ? - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
- Original Message - From: André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:42 PM Subject: Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows André Warnier wrote: Brian Clark wrote: Hello, I run Tomcat 6.0.x as a service on Windows 2003, using Sun JDK 1.6. I was trying to use the jstack program, part of the JDK, to get a stack dump from Tomcat/Java on my server. However, I ran into a problem. First of all, Tomcat on Windows seems to hide the JVM instance. Java doesn't show up in my process listing. I tried running jstack against the Tomcat PID but it errored out. Any idea how to make jstack work with Tomcat running as a service on Win2k3? I can't answer your question, but a look here might provide a clue : http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html That seems to be the way in which Tomcat is now implemented under Windows. Versions prior to 5.5 used to have a structure similar to the Unix version, with startup.bat and catalina.bat invoking Tomcat via Java, but that seems to have changed nowadays. Also, if it might help somewhat : open a command window and navigate to the Tomcat/bin directory. Then, instead of running tomcat as a service, just enter the tomcatx.exe command (where x is probably 6 in your case) (not the tomcatxW.exe). That will run Tomcat in the command window, maybe easier for you to figure out what is going on. Not for me though. Addendum : I just had another look at the Tomcat site. For version 5.5, there are 2 downloads for Windows : one is a zip, the other an msi installer. I must have in the past downloaded and installed the msi. I downloaded the zip version now, and that one seems to contain the usual startup.bat and catalina.bat files, in addition to the Win32 tomcat5 and tomcat5W executables. Maybe the .bat files allow to start Tomcat in the traditional way, via Java etc.. ? As a Service the PID is TomcatX From the start.BAT its JAVA The easiest way to get the PID is to type netstat -noa Its the one next to the port you on... On windows... you install your service version EXE Then you download the zip version and copy the missing BIN scripts across... then you have all the files If you need thread dumps Start TC from the BAT file. When you need a dump... press ctrl + break from term window... easier than Jstack... Andre is right. as a service Tomcat appears under the non normal java... because its started from a windows service... not launched as a normal java process. --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/cd_tut_swf/whatisejb1.htm --- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Martin Gainty wrote: I would steer clear of any windowsInstaller messWithYourRegistry windows specific utilities and/or programs SET JAVA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereJavaIsInstalled SET CATALINA_HOME=SourceFolderLocationWhereTomcatIsInstalled SET JAVA_OPTS=whatever java options you need to set then java -jar bootstrap.jar works on every platform Oh, I didn't think of that ! And what happens when you log out of your Windows server ? :-) - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) - Original Message From: Johnny Kewl [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need thread dumps Start TC from the BAT file. When you need a dump... press ctrl + break from term window... easier than Jstack...
Re: jstack and Tomcat 6 on Windows
Brian Clark wrote: Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Unfortunately, that doesn't help me with my particular issue. I have a memory leak in one of my apps, and when the system runs out of memory, it stops responding to new requests. I have a script that will detect this condition and automatically restart Tomcat. I was hoping to add a jstack command to this script to give me a thread dump prior to restarting Tomcat to give me better troubleshooting information. Your solution would work under normal circumstances, but I don't know how to script a ctrl+break. ;-) But maybe it would help you, if some conditions are met : If this Windows machine can be left with Tomcat running in a command window (instead of as a Windows service in the background). You say you could do this with jstack (?), if this Tomcat was running in a way similar as under Unix/Linux (meaning a java process runnning bootstrap.jar, right ?). If that is the case, then do as follows (it's longer to type than to do): - if not already so, download and install a Java 6 JDK on that machine (ok, that may take a while..) - download the zip package of Tomcat6, as I suggested - extract the content somewhere - as Johnny suggested, copy the files from that unzipped /bin directory, to the current /bin directory of your Tomcat msi installation. Those files seem to be the usual startup.bat and catalina.bat etc.. (corresponding to the startup.sh and catalina.sh of Unix/Linux versions). That zip probably also contains the same tomcat6.exe and tomcat6W.exe that you have already, so you might be able to copy the whole bin directory over the other one. - fix up what is needed to have JAVA_HOME, JAVA_OPTS, CATALINA_HOME correctly defined (setenv.bat ?) - in a command window, navigate to that bin directory and enter .\startup.bat. That will start Tomcat right here, under Java, as a command-line application. The main process will then be Java, which is what you are looking for, no ? All your applications will work in exactly the same way. Your script should work equally well whether Tomcat is running as a Windows Service, or just as an application, no ? You might even see messages to the console that you've missed before. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
