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To stop the Tomcat server you have to right click on the server in the Runtime tab and select the "Start/Stop Server..." option which opens up a dialog which can be used for starting and stopping. The start and stop commands should be directly accessible in the context menu without having to first open the dialog. In addition, it would be useful if there was a toolbar dedicated to Tomcat commands.
There's also 45942 which is similar. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 27734 ***