How to kill Tomcat when running it from Eclipse?

Question

I am running the Tomcat that gets delivered with your Eclipse download (no, I don\'t want to download and install the entire Tomcat), and sometimes it hangs when stopping or res

Answer 1

On Windows, if you know the port Tomcat listens to (below, it is 8080), you can find the PID of the Tomcat process and then kill it from cmd:

> netstat -aon | find "8080"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:8080           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       2196
  TCP    [::]:8080              [::]:0                 LISTENING       2196
> taskkill /pid 2196 /f
  SUCCESS: The process with PID 2196 has been terminated.