Tomcat shutdown.bat from ant?

[benethridge]

Hi.

In the airline sample app, there are several useful-looking ant/tomcat commands, with which you can deploy your app to tomcat from ant. One that I can't find, though, is a shutdown target.

This tomcat-launch target works for me (again, taken from the airline sample):

<target name="tomcat-launch" depends="tomcat.init" description="Launch the tomcat server process">
		<exec dir="${tomcat.dir}/bin" executable="startup.bat" spawn="true" vmlauncher="false">
			<env key="JAVA_OPTS" value="${tomcat.javaopts}" />
		</exec>
</target>

This tomcat-shutdown target, that I wrote returns a "BUILD SUCCESSFUL", but doesn't shutdown tomcat:

<target name="tomcat-shutdown" depends="tomcat.init" description="Shutdown the tomcat server process">
		<exec dir="${tomcat.dir}/bin" executable="shutdown.bat" spawn="true" vmlauncher="false">
			<env key="JAVA_OPTS" value="${tomcat.javaopts}" />
		</exec>
</target>

Anyone know why not, and what I need to do to get it to work?

I've googled around on this a bit, but haven't found anything signif yet.

Ben

[Arno Werr]

what I need to do to get it to work?

Ditch Redmond?
Here what I am running on Fedora and no problemo!

<target name="tomcat.stop">
		<exec dir="${tomcat.home}/bin" executable="shutdown.sh" spawn="true" />
	</target>

Finita!

[benethridge]

Yes, that's pretty much what I had. For some reason (you see it?) it didn't work for me. Here's one I found on google and modified, that does work:

<target name="tomcat-shutdown">
	<java classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap" fork="yes">
	<jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${tomcat.dir}" />
	  <arg value="stop" />
	   <classpath>
	     <fileset dir="${tomcat.dir}">
	       <include name="bin/bootstrap.jar" />
	     </fileset>
	   </classpath>
	 </java>
</target>

Ben

[Arno Werr]

Oh man...
3 lines of code against how many lines?
I do not know what's going on with your Windoz. Mine Linux is just fine with 3 LOC.
Sorry friend ;(

[benethridge]

I don't know either, but the bottom line is that it works, and the 3 lines doesn't, so I'll take that any day, unless someone knows why it's not working in Windows.

Ben

[rafacm]

Probably the 3 lines "solution" does not work because it is not portable?
The executable on Windows is a BAT file and not a shell script.

/rafa

[Arno Werr]

I gather it's a good example of elegance of Linux (3 LOC - everything straight to the point) and bloatness of Windows.
A simple task requires 'The War and Peace' coding.
But it's just me. What can I say, I love 'lean and mean' approach.
Sorry for offtop.

[benethridge]

I agree. I've always liked Unix better as an "industrial strength" operating system.

No offense taken.

Ben