Restart tomcat through webapp

Question

I have a crazy request about restarting tomcat server through my webapp. I was searching for nearly 2 days about this and all i found are executing external batch file or ca

Answer 1

Why not just create a script an call it trough Runtime.exec? Seems quite optimal to me. Since restarting tomcat will terminate the Java VM, it doesn't really make sense to have it as an API call.