How to use brew service to start Tomcat?

Question

I am using brew to install tomcat, so far so good.

I heard that I could use brew services to start tomcat as a service, but it failed when I try

brew services start tomcat 

I received the error

Error: Formula `tomcat` has not implemented #plist or installed a locatable .plist file

I am wondering how to fix this?

Answer 1

The tomcat formula is now able to start and stop tomcat with:

brew services start tomcat

and

brew services stop tomcat

Thanks to Maxime Faye and this commit.

Run:

brew upgrade

to obtain this new feature.