appengine:devserver_stop not working in Windows 8/eclipse
If you have added appengine:devserver_stop in eclipse as a debug goal in maven goals and still you are not able to stop the server then you can manually close the server on given port. Let's take an example that your server is running on 8080 that you want to stop. 1) Open command line prompt: netstat -a -n -o You will get following output...... Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 700 TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4 TCP 0.0.0.0:49152 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 432 TCP 0.0.0.0:49153 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 756 TCP 0.0.0.0:49154 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 788 TCP 0.0.0.0:49155 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 548 TCP 0.0.0.0:49156 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 540 TCP 10.0.0.69:139 0.0.0.0:0