web application on startup

hello.
i have a tomcat web application (in struts framework) and i need to add it to linux startup. am using redhat 9. can anybody guide me through?i have actually ran apache tomcat successfully. but when i tried the web application (standalone) , the system haults after the web app is started. (after “HTTPConnector[8084] started as background thread”)..the web applicatin has successfully started but the problem is linux wont continue to boot up..
please help, anyone.