Tomcat runs for 4 seconds and then quits

[LuckyKoen]

I installed Tomcat 5.5.7 on a PC with Win2000 sp 4 and j2sdk 1.4.2. Tomcat shows up in the services and when I start this service it runs for 4 seconds and then stops. The error log is empty and the service log only shows the following 4 lines :

[2005-03-17 10:42:09] [info] Starting service...
[2005-03-17 10:42:10] [info] Service started in 1331 ms.
[2005-03-17 10:42:14] [info] Run service finished.
[2005-03-17 10:42:14] [info] Procrun finished.

I also have Apache 2.0 which runs fine. (I don't have Apache 2 running when I am trying to start Tomcat)

Any ideas why Tomcat refuses to keep running ?

 

[developerinlondon]

you might need JDK 1.5 for tomcat 5.5.7
also try turning debug on from server.xml to get a more detailed log.

 

[LuckyKoen]

I downloaded Tomcat 5.0 and that version seems to work fine. A friend of mine had no problems with running Tomcat 5.5.7 at all but he was indeed using JDK 1.5.

 

[developerinlondon]

you are better off downloading jdk1.5 instead, tomcat 5.5.7 and jdk1.5 is much more optimized then their predecessors.

 

[sedj]

tomcat 5.5.7 and jdk1.5 is much more optimized then their predecessors

developerinlondon :
I was interested in which specific ways this is so ?

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[developerinlondon]

I noticed several cases without specifically looking for them, eg the xml parsing of the server.xml is much simpler in 5.5.7, tomcat 5.0 seems to have a default memory limit of 64MB whereas 5.5.7 uses the whole available memory by default, jdk1.5 has an overriden version of String.replace as i mentioned on the other posts. I am sure others have found many other small but useful changes that adds up to a lot, perhaps going through the tomcat/jdk version featurelist/bugfixes will give a fuller list if one is very curious ;-)

 

[developerinlondon]

heres the JDK 1.5 feature list:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html

and tomcat 5.5 feature list:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/changelog.html

I would rather stick to the most recent stable version then to use an old version and try to fix whats already been fixed.