How to stop maven tomcat

Question

I am very new to Maven builds. I have created a maven project and running it using maven build. It is running fine using tomcat7:run as goal but then I am finding it hard to stop the server. I am getting following error when I try to run again.

java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind <null>:8080

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

If the process is still running, you should be able to see it in your console. If you see a stop button (like 1 ), just press it and that should stop the tomcat server.

If you happen to have had more than one service running, then the button in 2 should be activated. That will show all the running and stopped services you have. Select the one for your Tomcat and then press the stop button.

Answer 2

You can use mvn tomcat7:shutdown command to stop.

Shuts down all possibly started embedded tomcat servers. This will be automatically down through a shutdown hook or you may call this Mojo to shut them down explictly.

Here is the documentation .