I have a vanilla tomcat 6.0.20 installation on Macintosh. Previously when it launched the process that showed up in Activity Monitor (and ps -w -w) was "java". Now it is org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap, and it shows up in the Application Bar, which is weird. Some time passed before we noticed this, so we don't know exactly what changed in our application. We are not doing anything exotic except starting a thread pool in the . We did not update Java, nor Tomcat.
So ...
Is this something to worry about?
There is a page (http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/121793-org-apache-catalina-startup-bootstrap.html) which discusses this and says that it is easy to set for headless running. That part is fine, but what worries me is that it suddenly started happening.
What gives?