How to start and stop tomcat using java code?

Question

How to start and stop tomcat using java code?

Answer 1

You need to execute main method of org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap with the parameter "start".

You also need following things:

• to have tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar in your classpath;
• -Dcatalina.base to point to $TOMCAT_HOME
• -Dcatalina.home to point to $TOMCAT_HOME
• -Djava.io.tmpdir to point to a temporary directory (usually $TOMCAT_HOME/temp)

I also have -noverify parameter set, not sure if it is always necessary.

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