Re: How to restart tomcat service from my java program

From:
vanisathish@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
14 Nov 2006 16:43:39 -0800
Message-ID:
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Thanks for the update. But if i stop the Tomcat Service, how will start
again, since the tomcat is not there already. I'm using this approach
to start/stop other services in the way you've mentioned

Thanks
kww731029@gmail.com wrote:

You can call a MS-DOS command in Java environment. For exampe, if I
stop "Symantec Core LC" service in my computer. My testing code is like
following.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/**
 *
 * @author Carl Wu
 *
 */
public class StopServiceTest {

    /**
     * Test main method
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        StopServiceTest test = new StopServiceTest();
        test.stopService("\"Symantec Core LC\"");

    }

    /**
     * Stop a service in Windows XP
     *
     * @param serviceName the service name
     * If there is space in service name string, please add "\" before and
after of the service name.
     */
    protected void stopService(String serviceName) {
        try {
            String command = "net stop " + serviceName;
            //print command name
            System.out.println(command);
            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);

            //print execute results
            InputStream is = p.getInputStream();
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
            is.close();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

The testing results are:

net stop "Symantec Core LC"
The Symantec Core LC service is stopping.
The Symantec Core LC service was stopped successfully.

May it helpful to you,

Carl Wu

vanisathish@gmail.com wrote:

I need to restart the tomcat service, from within my application
whenever there is a configuration change. Because i'm loading some
static hashmap's,starting some threads, during tomcat start-up thro' a
plugin. Now when the user goes and change the configuration settings, i
need to re-start the threads & plugins.

So i think the only possibility that i've is to restart the tomcat
thro' program. I running tomcat5.5. on WinXP as a service. How do i do
this in my java program
Appreciate your input

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