to make tomcat to use javaw.exe instead of java.exe
using some startup parameter or environment varibale
At the bottom of setclasspath.bat set _RUNJAVA="%JRE_HOME%\bin\java" set _RUNJAVAW="%JRE_HOME%\bin\javaw" These are the settings set _RUNJAVA="%JRE_HOME%\bin\javaw" Should do it, I think... If I'm not mistaken... JavaW is only found on Windows versions of Java... remember that