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I have three Tomcat's registered in my 6.1 (zip distribution) installation, each is for a different project: One Tomcat 6.0.14 One Tomcat 6.0.10 One Tomcat 5.5.20 When I start either one of the Tomcat 6 instances, the 5.5 instance is displayed as "running" in the Servers tab even though it is not running. When I stop the 6.0 instance and do a refresh on the 5.5. instance the green arrow disappears. I verified with the taskmanager that the 5.5. is really not running. All Tomcats are registered without a Catalina Base (private) directory. This is on Windows XP, JDK 16 and NetBeans 6.1 RC
I'm afraid this is not fixable at all. There is little chance to differentiate between these by asking on the proper port. All this running instances looks the same to the ide and can't be distinguished. These problem with detection - tomcat does not provide any config interface - you can just ask whether web port is available.
OK, thanks for the feedback. So this would not happen if they were defined to be using different ports?
Exactly. I forgot to mention that. Different port is the solution.
Closing the issue as WONTFIX as per phejl's comment above.