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From: James Williamson <JWilliamson@Lastminute.com>
To: "'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Using Tomcat 3.2 B2 with VAJava - changes to StopTomcat.java
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:10:39 +0100
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Why do you need a shell script when respawn in your inittab will do the job?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Kientzle [mailto:kientzle@acm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:13 AM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Using Tomcat 3.2 B2 with VAJava - changes to
> StopTomcat.java
> 
> 
> This is something I've been wondering about.  I've been
> toying with the idea of adding a shell script that simply
> starts Tomcat, waits for it to die, restarts it,... in
> an endless loop.  This is mostly a reliability issue, having
> Tomcat automatically restart in the event of a problem.
> 
> It had occurred to me that this might allow for a servlet
> to automatically restart Tomcat.  Can a servlet running
> within Tomcat invoke this?  If so, that would be very useful;
> I'd like for an administrative servlet to allow a webmaster
> to completely restart Tomcat, in the process flushing any stale
> cached data, etc.
> 
> 				- Tim
> 
> 
> Dave Harms wrote:
> > 
> > If you're following Sheldon Wosnick's much-appreciated tutorial on
> > using VAJava with Tomcat, you'll need to make a couple of changes to
> > StopTomcat.java for proper shutdown. Change
> > 
> >  Class aClass = Class.forName("org.apache.tomcat.shell.Shutdown");
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >  Class aClass = Class.forName("org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat");
> > 
> > And change
> > 
> >  Object[] arguments = new Object[] {new String[] {}};
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >  Object[] arguments = new Object[] {new String[] {"-stop"}};
> > 
> > That will pass the -stop parameter to 
> org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat,
> > which now handles startup and shutdown.
> > 
> > FYI.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > Dave Harms
> > jdev@clarionmag.com
> 


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