Starting the Apache Tomcat server
- Click the Start menu and right-click Computer and select Manage.
- Expand Configuration and click Services.
- Right-click the Tomcat service and select Start.
How do I start and stop Tomcat?
1) Windows (if Tomcat is setup as Windows Service)
- To Start server: <Tomcat Root>/bin>Tomcat8.exe start.
- To Stop server: <Tomcat Root>/bin>Tomcat8.exe stop.
What happens when Tomcat server start?
the file gets compiled into target/classes. upon publish the file gets copied to the deployment folder. Tomcat notices that a class file was changed and reloads the context (i.e. web application is restarted)
