Changing the process name

[craigey]

Hi,

I'm using tomcat on a windows machine. It's called via a bat file which in turns calls catalina.bat

Only thing is when I check the process name using task manager I only see java.exe. & I have several other java apps running, so I can't tell which is which. Is is possible to set the name to something else using a parameter in the bat / config files?

 

[sedj]

Windows task manager lists the process names of the executable which is running.

Tomcat is not actually an executable - its java code, running inside a JVM, which has the executable process name of "java.exe".

So .... no.

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[craigey]

Thanks for that. I did some more searching & came to the same conclusion. Although making a copy of java.exe, changing the name to Java_tomcat.exe & editing the startup bat file to point to java_tomcat.exe works - but it's an ugly hack!

 

[sedj]

Actually, if you wanted to be a complete madman (and I seriously discourage you do this, as it is a bit daft), you could do this :

Copy JAVA_HOME/bin/java.exe to JAVA_HOME/bin/tomcat.exe

Alter TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setclasspath.bat to instead of invoking "java", invoke "tomcat".

This would be done by changing this line :

set _RUNJAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java"

to this line :

set _RUNJAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\tomcat"


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[sedj]

Hehehehe - didn't see your previous post then.

Dodgy hack indeed it would be !

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