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Tired of restarting your webapps with Tomcat Ant Tasks or Tomcat Manager in development until tomcat starts to do crazy things?

add this to your .bashrc file:

skill ()
{
kill -9 `ps ax | grep $1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
}

And the write a small restart.sh script like that:

#!/bin/bash
. .bashrc
skill JavaVM
sleep 1
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh jpda start

On my system, i have only one process that has "JavaVM" in the process description and its most likely only on Mac OS X this way. Just use another string like "catalina" or "tomcat" instead of "JavaVM" as skill parameter.

You can call this bash script easily with "exec" Task with Ant. You can use the skill function also on the shell for easy trashing processes by name, just use "skill Safari" to kill Safari Browser. Of course it makes only sense for nun visual processes because otherwise its fast to kill them via GUI.