please help me how i can test that whether tomcat is up and running on

Tomcat community has a wiki which providded the http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_check_whether_Tomcat_is_UP_or_DOWN.3F_There_is_no_status_command i have tried to connect to tomcat using sockect connection on the port where the tomcat running Socket socket = new Socket("hostname", por

please help me how i can test that whether tomcat is up and running on a remote machine from a client machine.

Tomcat community has a wiki which providded the http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_check_whether_Tomcat_is_UP_or_DOWN.3F_There_is_no_status_command i have tried to connect to tomcat using sockect connection on the port where the tomcat running  Socket socket = new Socket("hostname", por