I changed the following settings in setclasspath.bat to start tomcat server in Server Mode. Set _RUNJAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -server Set _RUNJAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw" -server Set _RUNJAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\jdb" -server I have also changed JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jvm.cfg to put -server at the top of the list How do we determine if tomcat actually came up using server mode? Hari