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Bootstrap: command line arguments no more supported  before action

           Summary: Bootstrap: command line arguments no more supported
                    before action
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.14
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: p_samson@yahoo.com


In version 4.x, this was OK:
start "Tomcat" "D:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin\java"   
-Djava.endorsed.dirs="..\common\endorsed" -classpath
"D:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\lib\tools.jar;..\bin\bootstrap.jar"
-Dcatalina.base="D:\psa\Euronet\tomcat4124_base" -Dcatalina.home=".."
-Djava.io.tmpdir="D:\psa\Euronet\tomcat4124_base\temp"
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap  -debug start

In version 5.x, the command is expected as args[0], so "-debug" doesn't
mean anything like "start" or "stop" and nothing is done.

But in catalina.bat (or .sh) the syntax is still:
...  %MAINCLASS% %CMD_LINE_ARGS% %ACTION%

In Bootstrap.java "if (arguments[i].equals("-debug"))" is there, but
in a init(String[] arguments), and Main() calls another version without
the parameter: init().

Main() has a comment "used for testing only", but it is still the way
to call the bootstrap in startup.bat/catalina.bat, as specified
in RUNNING.txt.
If there is another 'official' way to start the server, I have not yet
found how to install it as a service (Windows) (only mentioned at
jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html)
or what are the launcher (xx-with-launcher.bat) and tool-wrapper.

Workaround: let's drop the -debug argument for a while.

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