Tomcat 7 console and/or tray icon not showing up when running as a windows service

Question

I have installed Tomcat7 as a service(service.bat). It starts and works fine as a service, but I don't see a console that usually comes up when you manually start the server using Tomcat7.exe or startup.bat.

Btw, I'm on windows 7 and I have tried a few things from here - http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html

I can put the 'Tomcat7w monitor application' to the tray using - tomcat7w //MS//tomcat7w

But I need a console and and/or a tray icon for the Tomcat7 service itself.

Answer 1

The solution is that go to the tomcat/bin folder in a command prompt window then try something like that: tomcat8w //MS//Tomcat8

And that's it, the monitor service appear.

Answer 2

I found this on apache.org http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html at the bottom of the page is info on the console.

In linux one could simply do a tail -f on a text file and see te log entries come in so i googled for a replacement on windows this is it I hope it is of use.