Starting tomcat using Execute Script/batch file action

[vijji123]

Hi I have a requirement where i need to start and stop tomcat from command prompt rather than using windows service.

I am using the below code using Execute Script/batch file action

cd $PORTAL_HOME$\bin
catalina.bat start

but it is failing to start.

Second question is if it get started how can we suspend the installer progress untill server get started.

Thanks,
Vijay

[pv7721]

I think that this has to do with the fact that when you do that the startup.bat opens a new window, and "Suppress first window" (Windows only) is checked by default. However, I really don't see the use case of starting the Apache Tomcat server not by service, but by this .bat file, exactly because of this console window...

[Scorp84]

I made a setup that does exactly what you need. I made it in an CustomCodeAction. Here's the Code:

		File scriptFile = new File("C:\\TOMCAT\\catalina.bat"); //whatever your path is    
		
		ProcessBuilder oProcBuilder = neww ProcessBuilder("cmd", "/c", scriptFile.getName());

		oProcBuilder.directory(scriptFile.getParentFile());
	

		//run the script file
		try {
			Process oProcScript = oProcBuilder.start();
		
			try {
				oProcScript.waitFor();				
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
			
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}