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A colleague pointed me to an Eclipse plugin for ATG Dynamo application server. The plugin lets you start and shutdown ATG Dynamo from within Eclipse. But sadly the plugin does not work on the latest build of Eclipse. (Yes, I work with the nightly builds ;-))

But I have for sometime been using the "External Tools" feature in Eclipse to start and stop ATG from Eclipse.

This is quite simple I just call the cmd.exe  and pass startDynamo.bat or stopDynamo.bat along with the parameters to this. This way the output is redirected to the Eclipse console. The following screen-shots show configurations.

For "Start ATG" the following properties are set: 
Location: "C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE"
Working Directory: "C:\ATG\Dynamo5.6.1\home" 
Arguments: "/c C:\ATG\Dynamo5.6.1\home\bin\startDynamo.bat -m yourmoduleshere"
Just change the yourmoduleshere  to the modules you need to start.

For "Stop ATG" the following properties are set: 
Location: "C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE"
Working Directory: "C:\ATG\Dynamo5.6.1\home" 
Arguments: "/c C:\ATG\Dynamo5.6.1\home\bin\stopDynamo.bat -user admin -password admin"
Just change the user and password appropriately.

Plus you can use the LogWatcher plugin to tail the ATG log.