I didn't experience this issue while running Atmosphere 1.0.9, so i recompiled the project with Atmosphere 1.0.9, atmosphere-compat-tomcat.jar (tomcat6 jar) is in tomee/lib (as this has been standard procedure for me), and restarted tomee.
also, i checked event log on the windows server, and wow, google update service was triggered and started to run one hour prior to tomee service stopping. i had to login to the server and restart tomee. i just disabled google update service and a dns client service running on the windows 2008 server. i'm quite sure that i have no need of either of those services from running. i'm going to monitor logs in tomee/logs to see if atmosphere 1.0.9 is running good/okay with latest TomEE 1.5.2-SNAPSHOT.
