Tomcat as windows service

Question

Hi everybody,
Im trying to make Tomcat (5.0.25) run as a windows service. I tried using service.bat, which installs a windows service of type manual. As this is for client machines, setting the service type to automatic is not an option. So what I am looking for is either a way to use service.bat to create an automatic windows service, or a way to change a services type from manual to autmatic.

Answer 1

Ignore my last post about the options. As of August 16, 2004, the page is out of date and the options are incorrect for the verison shipped with Tomcat 5.0.27.
However, to find out how to use tomcat5.exe, look at the "service.bat" file in the bin directory. This wraps a call to it with the most common options you will need. I had some troubling customizing the script (using Tomcat 5.0.27) for my own needs, but eventually figured it out (with much help from posts on the Tomcat newsgroups.)
The changes I made were:
1) To allow allow compilation of JSPs, changed PR_CLASSPATH to include J2SDK tools.jar:
Before
set PR_CLASSPATH=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\bootstrap.jar
After
set PR_CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\bootstrap.jar2a) To use a specific JVM location, changed jvm option from 'auto'
2b) To make service automatic instead of manual, added Startup option
2c) To use customized server.xml file and pass multiple parameters to StartClass, changed StartParams by separating additional values by semi-colons:
Before
"%EXECUTABLE%" //IS//%SERVICE_NAME% --Jvm auto
--StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
--StartParams start --StopParams stop
After
"%EXECUTABLE%" //IS//%SERVICE_NAME% --Jvm "%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"
--StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
--StartParams "-config;%CUSTOM_SERVERXML_FILE%;-nonaming;start" --StopParams stop
--Startup Automatic3) To specify min and max memory limits, added extra jvm startup parameters
Before
"%EXECUTABLE%" //US//%SERVICE_NAME% --JvmOptions
"-Dcatalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE%;-Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME%;-Djava.endorsed.dirs=%CATALINA_HOME%\common\endorsed"
--StartMode jvm --StopMode jvm
After
"%EXECUTABLE%" //US//%SERVICE_NAME% --JvmOptions
"-Xms128M;-Xmx256M;-Dcatalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE%;-Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME%;-Djava.endorsed.dirs=%CATALINA_HOME%\common\endorsed"
--StartMode jvm --StopMode jvm