Yes, it is possible to shutdown Tomcat remotely. Using JMX, you could shutdown the Tomcat service. Check out the JBoss/Tomcat mix. If you run Tomcat as a service within JBoss, JMX allows you to shut the server down.
-Vijay Prabhakar
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:55 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Tomcat Shutdown capabilities
Also, is it possible to shutdown Tomcat from another machine (securely). I
have seen lots of message activity and code that restricts shutdown from
other machines. I actually need that functionality for our operations
group.
FYI: We had been considering an architecture with IIS/Apache as a web server
and tomcat as the app server. However, given the capabilities of our Load
Balancing machine which can cache static content for an entire web farm and
handle SSL encryption/decryption in hardware (I love hardware solutions), we
are considering using Tomcat as both web and application server.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Carmichael
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat Shutdown capabilities
>
> I am interested in what Tomcat does when it receives a shutdown signal.
> Specifically, does it wait for requests being serviced to finish before
> terminating. I have traced the code to Context.shutdownContext. Nothing
> so far gives me the indication that Tomcat will wait until all HTTP
> requests have been completed before shutting down.
>
>
