Methods to start Tomcat from an application

[Pat Metheny]

Hello all,
My question is related to the methods used to start Tomcat from inside the application. So far I've seen that method #1 (see below) is widely used. I've been thinking to use a simpler method for doing this so I wrote methdod #2 (see below). Is the overhead (Class.forName(), getMethod(), invoke()) from method #1 really necessary ?

Method #1:
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import java.lang.reflect.Method;
public class TomcatStarter
{
private final static String CLASS_NAME =
"org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap";
public static void main(String[] aArgs) throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("catalina.home", aArgs[0]);
Class bootstrap = Class.forName(CLASS_NAME);
Class[] argsArray = new Class[] { String[].class };
Method main = bootstrap.getMethod("main", argsArray);
main.invoke(null, new Object[] { new String[] { "start" }});
}
}

Method #2:
""""""""""

import org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap;
public class TomcatStarter
{
public static void main(String[] aArgs) throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("catalina.home", aArgs[0]);
Bootstrap.main(new String[] { "start"});
}
}

TIA,
Pat