Running Tomcat as a service: was -> Re: new RELEASE-PLAN

["Kevin A. Burton" <bu...@relativity.yi.org>]

Jonathan Pierce wrote:
> 
> You can implement Tomcat as an NT service by creating a service and using a
> utility such as invoker from www.idetix.com or srvany.exe from the NT resource
> kit. These require manual edits to the registry to configure the service to
> invoke the java VM to run Tomcat.
> 
> There is also a java based toolkit that can accomplish installing NT services.
> 
> I'm not sure what the licensing issues would be and whether these tools could be
> redistributed with TomCat or include source code.  Someone would need to write
> an install script that would install TomCat as a service and do the required
> Registry edits.
> 
> Jonathan
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This is the second time this has come up.  Are there docs on this.  I
have a feeling it will be a FAQ.

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