StandardServer

The default implementation of the org.apache.catalina.Server interface is org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer. This is the implementation that you get if your server.xml does not specify a different class through the className attribute of the<Server> element.

The primary responsibilities of a Server are to act as a container for one or more Service instances and to open a server socket on a port on which to listen for a shutdown command. This port number and the shutdown command are specified using the port and shutdown attributes of the<Server> element respectively.

Its initialize() and start() methods are called during the startup process that is kicked off by the Bootstrap class's main() method. These methods simply call the similarly named methods on each Service instance that is contained by this Server. The start() method also notifies its listeners at various points in the startup process.

Its stop() method should be the last method called on a Server...