Any idea why org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap pops up in dock on Mac?

Question

I have a web application setup using tomcat. Sometimes a little icon appears in the dock with the title "org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap".

Does anyone know why this happens and/OR how to fix this ?

Tomcat Version : 7.0.19

Answer 1

I found this incredibly annoying too, it would always steal focus from my web browser after I restarted Tomcat via Eclipse.

To fix it I went to the folder containing the Tomcat instance Eclipse was using (for me it was /Servers/Tomcat_Blah_Blah_Blah)

Edit catalina.properties and add a line with "java.awt.headless=true"