Occasionally the Tomcat server doesn't shutdown in a clean way when using Eclipse. What happens is that port 8080 stays in use and the server can't restart. Exiting Eclipse is not sufficient in this case and a restart of Mac OSX is needed.
So, how to kill the running Tomcat and free port 8080.
Open the terminal window and execute the following commands.
- sudo lsof -w -n -i tcp:8080
This will give you the pidnumber of the process that runs at 8080. You can then go ahead and kill it.
- sudo kill -9 pidnumber
http://petervandamme.blogspot.kr/2011/09/kill-tomcat-process-at-port-8080.html
