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Catalina calls System.exit()

           Summary: Catalina calls System.exit()
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.1.10
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: justin@somanetworks.com


Catalina calls System.exit()from several locations:
  -- core/StandardServer calls it
  -- several classes in startup call it

This makes life difficult for application developers who wish to embedd Tomcat
into their application, such as to attach a web interface to an application
which is otherwise not a web application.

In particular it may not be a critical failure if tomcat fails to start up
successfully, except that Catalina calls System.exit. It may also be a
recoverable error, as the containing system could try re-starting it with
different arguments. 

Please note that the documentation for CatalinaService at least in part implies
that it is expected to be used in this fashion: "designed to allow easier
wrapping by system level components".

So, I think Catalina should not call System.exit(), or should only call
System.exit() from a loader which is not intended to be wrapped by a system
level component.

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