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 restarting, and the only way I can find to make it work is restarting all my Eclipse. I am using it under Windows.

Is there any way to kill the Tomcat process (which doesn't appear in the Task Manager)?

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?

Answer 2

On Windows, if you know the port Tomcat listens to (below, it is 8080), you can find the PID of the Tomcat process and then kill it from cmd:

> netstat -aon | find "8080"   TCP    0.0.0.0:8080           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       2196   TCP    [::]:8080              [::]:0                 LISTENING       2196 > taskkill /pid 2196 /f   SUCCESS: The process with PID 2196 has been terminated.