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

Yet another option, since this is probably running as a service

FOR /F "tokens=4 delims= " %%A IN ('SC QUERY tomcat5 ^| FIND "STATE"') DO SET status=%%A
echo "%status%"

status can be things like STOPPED, RUNNING ...