Running Tomcat as an NT Service

["Ronald G. Louzon" <RG...@aethersystems.com>]

When running Tomcat as a Windows NT service, the NT wrapper
jk_nt_service.exe must be installed and run instead of using the startup
batch file.  It appears that the jk_nt_service application reads its entire
configuration from the wrapper.properties file.  What this means is that the
classes and jar files under WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib are not
automatically loaded for a servlet.  Instead, they must all be added
manually in the wrapper.properties file.

Has anyone else run Tomcat as an NT Service and seen this same behaviour?
If this behaviour is correct, why is so much functionality lost when running
with the wrapper service?

Thanks,
ron