How to kill Tomcat when running it from Eclipse?

Question

I am running the Tomcat that gets delivered with your Eclipse download (no, I don\'t want to download and install the entire Tomcat), and sometimes it hangs when stopping or res

Answer 1

It appears as javaw.exe in task manager. An alternative is to execute Tomcat/bin/shutdown.bat.

As to the hang problem, are you sure that your webapp isn't spawning unmanaged threads which might be blocking Tomcat's shutdown?