How to start and stop an Tomcat container with Java?

Question

I have a Maven project that starts a tomcat container for pre-integration-tests (jUnit Tests). Most of my tests require that the web-application under tests is restarted. So

Answer 1

bootstrap.jar and commons-logging-api-1.1.1 from tomcat\bin to your classpath and the following snippet may help,

Bootstrap bootstrap=new Bootstrap();
bootstrap.setCatalinaHome("D:/apache-tomcat-5.5.28");

bootstrap.start();

Thread.sleep(60000);

bootstrap.stop();