Tomcat: Starting It Up

I have installed Tomcat 5.5 on my machine. I have Windows XP.
On initial installation it started up fine.
I shut it down using the Task Manager.

I tried starting it up by going to Tomcat 5.5/bin
and typing in "startup'. But startup does not exist there.
I set JAVA_HOME as specified in the setup docs.

Can somebody please help on this.
Thanks

Try dir *.bat in the bin directory to see which files are there.

There are no *.bat files in the bin directory.

But there are 2 exe files: tomcat5.exe and tomcat5w.exe.

Do I execute one of these files & and how would I do that ?
Thanks

I shut it down using the Task Manager.

That's a little violent

If you've installed it on Windows, you should have a link in the "Programs" menu, with Apache Tomcat 5.5.
You can start/stop Tomcat via the "Monitor Tomcat" which is in that menu.

Hi victor, I remember you from the SCJP forum.

You should better install it as a service which integrates with Microsoft Windows, you simply can stop it using it's System Tray logo.

I'm actually using Sun Java System Application Server 9 which also supports EJB and seems more powerful. However it uses more system resources

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Sun Java System Application Server 9 which also supports EJB and seems more powerful.

For somebody studying SCWCD, who needs EJB and who needs power ?

Server 9 supports J2EE5.0, whereas SCWCD is for J2EE1.4.
Better stick to J2EE1.4 containers like Tomcat. Simple and enough.
But it may be a matter of taste

As you said, I would also install Tomcat as a Windows Service.

Hi Javier -

I remember you too. Congrats on the 95%.
You say I should install Tomcat as a Windows Service.
How would I do that.
Thanks

Satou -

When I start Tomcat via the "Monitor Tomcat", Tomcat starts because I can see the process via the Task Manager.
But when I point my browser to http://localhost:8080 it doesn't work ??
So what do I do ?

Thanks

Victor

Thanks guys -

I finally figured how to start Tomcat as a Windows Service.

Victor

Great, victor