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Asked: 2026-05-26T15:54:58+00:00

Scenario: Apache Tomcat 6.0 is started as a service on Windows Server 2008 R2

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Scenario:

Apache Tomcat 6.0 is started as a service on Windows Server 2008 R2 using a wrapper (org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperStartStop) which uses org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap. In course of the Tomcat startup one web application is also started.
This web application needs to connect to a remote database and check the connection. It retries to connect a couple of times if the database is not available and then shutdown after x tries.

Problem:

I need to stop Apache Tomcat after the web app exits when the database connection is not available.

Possible solutions:

  • Stop Apache Tomcat from within the web application (already tried the shutdown port which did not work because the connection was refused – with a standalone Java application it worked)
  • Call an external Java application from within the web application
  • Configure Apache Tomcat to shut down if the only web application shuts down – I could not find a way to do that

Any ideas? Maybe a different approach?

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  1. Editorial Team

    System.exit(0) from within your webapp will shut down the Tomcat instance if there is no security manager configured.

    Works from a standalone server, not sure whether it works when running as a Windows service.

    Edit: though you might want to read this: Calling System.exit() in Servlet's destroy() method

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