熟悉Tomcat的工程師們，或者從事Java開發的，肯定都知道Tomcat是如何啟動和停止的。在Tomcat原始碼包裡面有個bin目錄，該目錄下放置了一些很重要的指令碼，Tomcat啟動和停止的指令碼程式就放在這裡，分別是startup.bat、shutdown.bat（Windows環境）和start.sh、shutdown.sh（Linux、Unix環境）。大家一定都知道如何使用它們，接下來就是研究一下它們是如何實現啟動和停止服務的。

在實際的生產環境下，絕大多數的Tomcat都是部署在Linux環境下的，在這片文章中，我們以startup.sh和shutdown.sh為例簡單說說啟動和停止過程。（Tomcat版本7.0.69）

啟動過程分析：

進入到Tomcat的bin目錄，啟動startup.sh的命令如下：

./startup.sh

#!/bin/sh

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# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Start Script for the CATALINA Server
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Better OS/400 detection: see Bugzilla 31132
os400=false
case "`uname`" in
OS400*) os400=true;;
esac

# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
PRG="$0"

while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
  ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
    PRG="$link"
  else
    PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
  fi
done

PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`
EXECUTABLE=catalina.sh

# Check that target executable exists
if $os400; then
  # -x will Only work on the os400 if the files are:
  # 1. owned by the user
  # 2. owned by the PRIMARY group of the user
  # this will not work if the user belongs in secondary groups
  eval
else
  if [ ! -x "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" ]; then
    echo "Cannot find $PRGDIR/$EXECUTABLE"
    echo "The file is absent or does not have execute permission"
    echo "This file is needed to run this program"
    exit 1
  fi
fi

exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" start "
 
[email protected]"

os400=false
case "`uname`" in
OS400*) os400=true;;
esac

在後面的指令碼命令中，涉及到的兩個比較重要的變數就是PRGDIR（當前startup.sh指令碼的上一級目錄，即bin目錄）和EXECUTABLE（設定了指令碼名稱catalina.sh），然後最後通過執行

exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" start "[email protected]
 
"

...........
elif [<span style="color:#FF0000;"> "$1" = "start"</span> ] ; then

  <span style="color:#3366FF;">if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
    if [ -f "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
      if [ -s "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
        echo "Existing PID file found during start."
        if [ -r "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
          PID=`cat "$CATALINA_PID"`
          ps -p $PID >/dev/null 2>&1
          if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
            echo "Tomcat appears to still be running with PID $PID. Start aborted."
            echo "If the following process is not a Tomcat process, remove the PID file and try again:"
            ps -f -p $PID
            exit 1
          else
            echo "Removing/clearing stale PID file."
            rm -f "$CATALINA_PID" >/dev/null 2>&1
            if [ $? != 0 ]; then
              if [ -w "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
                cat /dev/null > "$CATALINA_PID"
              else
                echo "Unable to remove or clear stale PID file. Start aborted."
                exit 1
              fi
            fi
          fi
        else
          echo "Unable to read PID file. Start aborted."
          exit 1
        fi
      else
        rm -f "$CATALINA_PID" >/dev/null 2>&1
        if [ $? != 0 ]; then
          if [ ! -w "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
            echo "Unable to remove or write to empty PID file. Start aborted."
            exit 1
          fi
        fi
      fi
    fi
  fi</span>

  shift
  touch "$CATALINA_OUT"
  if [ "$1" = "-security" ] ; then
    if [ $have_tty -eq 1 ]; then
      echo "Using Security Manager"
    fi
    shift
    eval "\"$_RUNJAVA\"" "\"$LOGGING_CONFIG\"" $LOGGING_MANAGER $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS \
      -Djava.endorsed.dirs="\"$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" \
      -Djava.security.manager \
      -Djava.security.policy=="\"$CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.policy\"" \
      -Dcatalina.base="\"$CATALINA_BASE\"" \
      -Dcatalina.home="\"$CATALINA_HOME\"" \
      -Djava.io.tmpdir="\"$CATALINA_TMPDIR\"" \
     <span style="color:#CC33CC;"> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "[email protected]" start \
      >> "$CATALINA_OUT" 2>&1 "&"</span>

  else
    eval "\"$_RUNJAVA\"" "\"$LOGGING_CONFIG\"" $LOGGING_MANAGER $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS \
      -Djava.endorsed.dirs="\"$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" \
      -Dcatalina.base="\"$CATALINA_BASE\"" \
      -Dcatalina.home="\"$CATALINA_HOME\"" \
      -Djava.io.tmpdir="\"$CATALINA_TMPDIR\"" \
      <span style="color:#CC33CC;">org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "[email protected]" start \
      >> "$CATALINA_OUT" 2>&1 "&"</span>

  fi

  if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
    echo $! > "$CATALINA_PID"
  fi

  echo "Tomcat started."

elif [ <span style="color:#FF0000;">"$1" = "stop"</span> ] ; then
.................

上面的紅色部分就是判斷是啟動還是停止服務，而藍色部分是對一些引數的校驗工作，而從紫色部分可以看出，最終啟動的時候是執行了org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap這個類，同時傳遞了引數"start"。在之前的文章<Tomcat探祕（2）：如何在Eclipse中匯入和執行tomcat原始碼？>中我們已經把Tomcat原始碼匯入到了Eclipse中，這時候我們可以根據類包名路徑找到相應的類Bootstrap，並且找到其main()，這裡貼出main方法實現，如下所示：

/**
     * Main method and entry point when starting Tomcat via the provided
     * scripts.
     *
     * @param args Command line arguments to be processed
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) {

        if (daemon == null) {
            // Don't set daemon until init() has completed
            Bootstrap bootstrap = new Bootstrap();
            try {
                bootstrap.init();
            } catch (Throwable t) {
                handleThrowable(t);
                t.printStackTrace();
                return;
            }
            daemon = bootstrap;
        } else {
            // When running as a service the call to stop will be on a new
            // thread so make sure the correct class loader is used to prevent
            // a range of class not found exceptions.
            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(daemon.catalinaLoader);
        }

        try {
            String command = "start";
            if (args.length > 0) {
                command = args[args.length - 1];
            }

            if (command.equals("startd")) {
                args[args.length - 1] = "start";
                daemon.load(args);
                daemon.start();
            } else if (command.equals("stopd")) {
                args[args.length - 1] = "stop";
                daemon.stop();
            } <span style="color:#FF0000;">else if (command.equals("start")</span>) {
                daemon.setAwait(true);
                daemon.load(args);
                daemon.start();
            } else if (command.equals("stop")) {
                daemon.stopServer(args);
            } else if (command.equals("configtest")) {
                daemon.load(args);
                if (null==daemon.getServer()) {
                    System.exit(1);
                }
                System.exit(0);
            } else {
                log.warn("Bootstrap: command \"" + command + "\" does not exist.");
            }
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            // Unwrap the Exception for clearer error reporting
            if (t instanceof InvocationTargetException &&
                    t.getCause() != null) {
                t = t.getCause();
            }
            handleThrowable(t);
            t.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(1);
        }

    }

從上面的main方法可以看出，整個啟動過程大概分為三個步驟，如上面藍色標記的部分：

（1）判斷bootstrap是否已經初始化了？如果沒有則進行初始化；

（2）呼叫Bootstrap類的load()來載入server.xml配置檔案（這是一個很重要的配置檔案）；

（3）呼叫Bootstrap類的start()方法啟動Tomcat；

下面對這三個步驟進行簡單的描述。

第一步：判斷bootstrap是否已經初始化了？如果沒有則進行初始化；

通過上面的程式碼可以知道實際是通過呼叫bootstrap.init();來進行初始化的，那麼具體又做了什麼呢？我們看看init()方法是怎麼實現的：

/**
     * Initialize daemon.
     */
    public void init()
        throws Exception
    {

        // Set Catalina path
        setCatalinaHome();
        setCatalinaBase();

        initClassLoaders();

        Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(catalinaLoader);

        SecurityClassLoad.securityClassLoad(catalinaLoader);

        // Load our startup class and call its process() method
        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
            log.debug("Loading startup class");
        Class<?> startupClass =
            catalinaLoader.loadClass
            ("org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina");
        Object startupInstance = startupClass.newInstance();

        // Set the shared extensions class loader
        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
            log.debug("Setting startup class properties");
        String methodName = "setParentClassLoader";
        Class<?> paramTypes[] = new Class[1];
        paramTypes[0] = Class.forName("java.lang.ClassLoader");
        Object paramValues[] = new Object[1];
        paramValues[0] = sharedLoader;
        Method method =
            startupInstance.getClass().getMethod(methodName, paramTypes);
        method.invoke(startupInstance, paramValues);

        catalinaDaemon = startupInstance;

    }

從程式碼裡可以看出，主要做了三件事：

（1）設定了catalina.base和catalina.home路徑；

（2）初始化了需要的類載入器；

（3）利用Java中的反射機制，通過執行setParentClassLoader方法來設定Tomcat類載入體系的頂級類載入器；

第二步：呼叫Bootstrap類的load()來載入server.xml配置檔案

我們開啟Bootstrap類的load方法，如下所示：

/**
     * Load daemon.
     */
    private void load(String[] arguments)
        throws Exception {

        // Call the load() method
        String methodName = "load";
        Object param[];
        Class<?> paramTypes[];
        if (arguments==null || arguments.length==0) {
            paramTypes = null;
            param = null;
        } else {
            paramTypes = new Class[1];
            paramTypes[0] = arguments.getClass();
            param = new Object[1];
            param[0] = arguments;
        }
        Method method =
            catalinaDaemon.getClass().getMethod(methodName, paramTypes);
        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
            log.debug("Calling startup class " + method);
        method.invoke(catalinaDaemon, param);

    }

/**
     * Start a new server instance.
     */
    public void load() {

        long t1 = System.nanoTime();

        initDirs();

        // Before digester - it may be needed

        initNaming();

        // Create and execute our Digester
        Digester digester = createStartDigester();

        InputSource inputSource = null;
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        File file = null;
        try {
            try {
                file = configFile();
                inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
                inputSource = new InputSource(file.toURI().toURL().toString());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    log.debug(sm.getString("catalina.configFail", file), e);
                }
            }
            if (inputStream == null) {
                try {
                    inputStream = getClass().getClassLoader()
                        .getResourceAsStream(getConfigFile());
                    inputSource = new InputSource
                        (getClass().getClassLoader()
                         .getResource(getConfigFile()).toString());
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        log.debug(sm.getString("catalina.configFail",
                                getConfigFile()), e);
                    }
                }
            }

            // This should be included in catalina.jar
            // Alternative: don't bother with xml, just create it manually.
            if( inputStream==null ) {
                try {
                    inputStream = getClass().getClassLoader()
                            .getResourceAsStream("server-embed.xml");
                    inputSource = new InputSource
                    (getClass().getClassLoader()
                            .getResource("server-embed.xml").toString());
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        log.debug(sm.getString("catalina.configFail",
                                "server-embed.xml"), e);
                    }
                }
            }


            if (inputStream == null || inputSource == null) {
                if  (file == null) {
                    log.warn(sm.getString("catalina.configFail",
                            getConfigFile() + "] or [server-embed.xml]"));
                } else {
                    log.warn(sm.getString("catalina.configFail",
                            file.getAbsolutePath()));
                    if (file.exists() && !file.canRead()) {
                        log.warn("Permissions incorrect, read permission is not allowed on the file.");
                    }
                }
                return;
            }

            try {
                inputSource.setByteStream(inputStream);
                digester.push(this);
                digester.parse(inputSource);
            } catch (SAXParseException spe) {
                log.warn("Catalina.start using " + getConfigFile() + ": " +
                        spe.getMessage());
                return;
            } catch (Exception e) {
                log.warn("Catalina.start using " + getConfigFile() + ": " , e);
                return;
            }
        } finally {
            if (inputStream != null) {
                try {
                    inputStream.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // Ignore
                }
            }
        }

        getServer().setCatalina(this);

        // Stream redirection
        initStreams();

        // Start the new server
        try {
            getServer().init();
        } catch (LifecycleException e) {
            if (Boolean.getBoolean("org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE")) {
                throw new java.lang.Error(e);
            } else {
                log.error("Catalina.start", e);
            }

        }

        long t2 = System.nanoTime();
        if(log.isInfoEnabled()) {
            log.info("Initialization processed in " + ((t2 - t1) / 1000000) + " ms");
        }

    }

我們開啟start()方法的實現，如下所示：

/**
     * Start the Catalina daemon.
     */
    public void start()
        throws Exception {
        if( catalinaDaemon==null ) init();

        Method method = catalinaDaemon.getClass().getMethod("start", (Class [] )null);
        method.invoke(catalinaDaemon, (Object [])null);

    }

/**
     * Start a new server instance.
     */
    public void start() {

        if (getServer() == null) {
            load();
        }

        if (getServer() == null) {
            log.fatal("Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.");
            return;
        }

        long t1 = System.nanoTime();

        // Start the new server
        try {
            getServer().start();
        } catch (LifecycleException e) {
            log.fatal(sm.getString("catalina.serverStartFail"), e);
            try {
                getServer().destroy();
            } catch (LifecycleException e1) {
                log.debug("destroy() failed for failed Server ", e1);
            }
            return;
        }

        long t2 = System.nanoTime();
        if(log.isInfoEnabled()) {
            log.info("Server startup in " + ((t2 - t1) / 1000000) + " ms");
        }

        // Register shutdown hook
        if (useShutdownHook) {
            if (shutdownHook == null) {
                shutdownHook = new CatalinaShutdownHook();
            }
            Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(shutdownHook);

            // If JULI is being used, disable JULI's shutdown hook since
            // shutdown hooks run in parallel and log messages may be lost
            // if JULI's hook completes before the CatalinaShutdownHook()
            LogManager logManager = LogManager.getLogManager();
            if (logManager instanceof ClassLoaderLogManager) {
                ((ClassLoaderLogManager) logManager).setUseShutdownHook(
                        false);
            }
        }

        if (await) {
            await();
            stop();
        }
    }

（1）首先是判斷Catalina的Server例項是否初始化成功了，如果沒有，則繼續呼叫Catalina類的的load方法進行初始化；

（2）初始化成功之後，會呼叫上面程式碼中標紅部分進行整個元件的啟動操作，這裡想說的是，由於Tomcat內部設計的問題，整個元件的啟動並不是分散的，父級元件的啟動會帶動子級元素元件的啟動，依次類推，會使整個元件都啟動起來，例如Server的啟動會使相關的Service元件都啟動，而Service的啟動又會帶動Connector的啟動等等。這裡不做詳述，將另起一篇文章單獨說明，這篇文章只簡單描述整個啟動過程框架。

（3）如上述程式碼中藍色部分所示，設定了關閉鉤子，用於在Tomcat因為各種原因退出時做一些清理工作；

（4）呼叫Catalina自身類的await方法迴圈等待shutdown命令；

/**
     * Await and shutdown.
     */
    public void await() {

        getServer().await();

    }

Catalina類的await()方法其實只是代理了Server元件的await()方法。

我們在Eclipse內找到org.apache.catalina.core包下的Server元件的標準實現StandardServer，我們看看它的await方法都做了什麼？

/**
     * <span style="color:#FF0000;">Wait until a proper shutdown command is received, then return.</span>
     * This keeps the main thread alive - the thread pool listening for http 
     * connections is daemon threads.
     */
    @Override
    public void await() {
        // Negative values - don't wait on port - tomcat is embedded or we just don't like ports
        if( port == -2 ) {
            // undocumented yet - for embedding apps that are around, alive.
            return;
        }
        if( port==-1 ) {
            try {
                awaitThread = Thread.currentThread();
                while(!stopAwait) {
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep( 10000 );
                    } catch( InterruptedException ex ) {
                        // continue and check the flag
                    }
                }
            } finally {
                awaitThread = null;
            }
            return;
        }

        // Set up a server socket to wait on
        try {
            awaitSocket = new ServerSocket(port, 1,
                    InetAddress.getByName(address));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            log.error("StandardServer.await: create[" + address
                               + ":" + port
                               + "]: ", e);
            return;
        }

        try {
            awaitThread = Thread.currentThread();

            // Loop waiting for a connection and a valid command
            while (!stopAwait) {
                ServerSocket serverSocket = awaitSocket;
                if (serverSocket == null) {
                    break;
                }
    
                // Wait for the next connection
                Socket socket = null;
                StringBuilder command = new StringBuilder();
                try {
                    InputStream stream;
                    long acceptStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                    try {
                        <span style="color:#3333FF;">socket = serverSocket.accept();</span>
                        socket.setSoTimeout(10 * 1000);  // Ten seconds
                        stream = socket.getInputStream();
                    } catch (SocketTimeoutException ste) {
                        // This should never happen but bug 56684 suggests that
                        // it does.
                        log.warn(sm.getString("standardServer.accept.timeout",
                                Long.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis() - acceptStartTime)), ste);
                        continue;
                    } catch (AccessControlException ace) {
                        log.warn("StandardServer.accept security exception: "
                                + ace.getMessage(), ace);
                        continue;
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        if (stopAwait) {
                            // Wait was aborted with socket.close()
                            break;
                        }
                        log.error("StandardServer.await: accept: ", e);
                        break;
                    }

                    // Read a set of characters from the socket
                    int expected = 1024; // Cut off to avoid DoS attack
                    while (expected < shutdown.length()) {
                        if (random == null)
                            random = new Random();
                        expected += (random.nextInt() % 1024);
                    }
                    while (expected > 0) {
                        int ch = -1;
                        try {
                            ch = stream.read();
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            log.warn("StandardServer.await: read: ", e);
                            ch = -1;
                        }
                        if (ch < 32)  // Control character or EOF terminates loop
                            break;
                        command.append((char) ch);
                        expected--;
                    }
                } finally {
                    // Close the socket now that we are done with it
                    try {
                        if (socket != null) {
                            socket.close();
                        }
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        // Ignore
                    }
                }

                // Match against our command string
                <span style="color:#3366FF;">boolean match = command.toString().equals(shutdown);
                if (match) {
                    log.info(sm.getString("standardServer.shutdownViaPort"));
                    break;
                } else
                    log.warn("StandardServer.await: Invalid command '"
                            + command.toString() + "' received");</span>
            }
        } finally {
            ServerSocket serverSocket = awaitSocket;
            awaitThread = null;
            awaitSocket = null;

            // Close the server socket and return
            if (serverSocket != null) {
                try {
                    serverSocket.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // Ignore
                }
            }
        }
    }

（5）如果Tomcat正常執行且沒有收到shutdown命令，那麼程式會一直等待在await()方法處（阻塞在（4）中的serverSocket.accept()），一旦接收到shutdown命令，awaiit()方法會退出迴圈等待，並執行stop方法。下面看看stop()方法做了什麼：

/**
     * Stop an existing server instance.
     */
    public void stop() {

        try {
            // Remove the ShutdownHook first so that server.stop()
            // doesn't get invoked twice
            if (useShutdownHook) {
                Runtime.getRuntime().removeShutdownHook(shutdownHook);

                // If JULI is being used, re-enable JULI's shutdown to ensure
                // log messages are not lost
                LogManager logManager = LogManager.getLogManager();
                if (logManager instanceof ClassLoaderLogManager) {
                    ((ClassLoaderLogManager) logManager).setUseShutdownHook(
                            true);
                }
            }
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            ExceptionUtils.handleThrowable(t);
            // This will fail on JDK 1.2. Ignoring, as Tomcat can run
            // fine without the shutdown hook.
        }

        // Shut down the server
        try {
            Server s = getServer();
            LifecycleState state = s.getState();
            if (LifecycleState.STOPPING_PREP.compareTo(state) <= 0
                    && LifecycleState.DESTROYED.compareTo(state) >= 0) {
                // Nothing to do. stop() was already called
            } else {
                s.stop();
                s.destroy();
            }
        } catch (LifecycleException e) {
            log.error("Catalina.stop", e);
        }

    }

至此，整個Tomcat的啟動過程我們比較詳細的進行了說明，至於其中的部分細節並沒有詳細說明，將另起文章進行單獨說明，如類載入器、元件之間如何只要啟動一個Server元件就可以全部啟動，啟動成功之後關閉又是什麼樣的一個過程等等，如果想知道，可以繼續關注我的部落格，謝謝。