Determine if Tomcat is running in Windows using the command prompt

Question

Quite simply, how does one determine whether or not Tomcat is running in Windows, using the command prompt?

I am writing a batch script that must do this. This is

Answer 1

Test the status of the Tomcat Service with the SC command. MJB already suggested to test the service status with SC, yet another batch script (without FOR loop) for testing the status:

@ECHO OFF
SC query tomcat5 | FIND "STATE" | FIND "RUNNING" > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
    ECHO Stopped
) ELSE (
    ECHO Running
)

If you are not sure if the service name is tomcat5 you can list all service names with

SC query state= all | FIND "SERVICE_NAME"