How to get tomcat 5.5 to shut down from netbeans

Question

I have to run tomcat 5.5 with netbeans 6.7. This is NOT my choice. I have some legacy software that I am not allowed to re-write and must be supported. The question is how do i get tomcat 5.5 to shut down properly using netbeans commands to shut it down? It starts up fine with a bat file I created, but when I try to stop it, netbeans tries to shut it down for about 2 minutes then gives me a failure message, and I have to then have to stop it by ending the process.

The bat file is pretty simple.

set CATALINA_HOME=%cd%
tomcat5.exe

And could be my problem, I am not sure.

Answer 1

can you show the bat file writte for getting tomcat started. There must be some problem with it.

Answer 2

NetBeans 6.x allows you to control an existing server. Simply go to the "Services" tab, right-click "Servers", and point it at your Tomcat installation. You may have issues if the Tomcat server is owned by a different user, but you can set up per-user configurations.

Alternatively, NetBeans 5.5 comes with a Tomcat 5.5 server.