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Thai Tran
Thai Tran

Reputation: 9935

Restart tomcat through webapp

I have a crazy request about restarting tomcat server through my webapp. I was searching for nearly 2 days about this and all i found are executing external batch file or calling another program to do it. Is there any optimal solution for this by using java code? Am i missing something?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3235

Answers (3)

Bruno Grieder
Bruno Grieder

Reputation: 29824

Best solution we have found is to use the Java Service Wrapper

It provides multiple benefits in managing the lifecyle of your server - including what you are trying to achieve - and in particular the ability to easily register as a Windows service.

Upvotes: 0

Oded Peer
Oded Peer

Reputation: 2427

You can connect to the shutdown port tomcat opens and issue the shutdown command.
See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/server.html

Upvotes: 2

Mathias Schwarz
Mathias Schwarz

Reputation: 7197

Why not just create a script an call it trough Runtime.exec? Seems quite optimal to me. Since restarting tomcat will terminate the Java VM, it doesn't really make sense to have it as an API call.

Upvotes: 4

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