Tomcat as a service

Is it possible to run Tomcat as a service under Win2K. If so, how do I do it? We need it to run all the time, even when I log off the machine.

Hello,
I had the same problem and I found that the tomcat.exe can be used to install a service.
tomcat -install Tomcat %java_home%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll "-Djava.endorsed.dirs=%catalina_home%\bin;%catalina_home%\common\endorsed" "-Djava.class.path=%java_home%\lib\tools.jar;%catalina_home%\bin\bootstrap.jar" "-Dcatalina.base=%catalina_home%" "-Dcatalina.home=%catalina_home%" "-Djava.io.tmpdir=%catalina_home%\temp" -start org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap -params start -stop org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap -params stop
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