Thanks Bruce and John.
I would like to hear from more people on this as well as from David
Jencks and Dain too.
Bruce Snyder wrote:
On 8/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I noticed that Tomcat 5.5 uses the commons-daemon project and for
non-Windows platforms the source (included with the Tomcat binaries) must be
compiled.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html
Maybe we could follow Tomcat's approach of not providing the binaries for
all platforms and leaving it up to the end user. It is not as though they
can't start Geronimo without them, since the shell scripts should always be
available.
After thinking further about this, I now agree with what Jeff
suggested and what you say above, John. I think we should simply
develop a set of generic shell scripts and init scripts and nothing
more (beyond a Windoze service, that is). We also need to encourage
users to contribute their customizations to these scripts for
additional platforms.
Is anyone familiar with the pros and cons of commons-daemon over Java
Service Wrapper and why the Tomcat project chose to use commons-daemon?
Not I.
Bruce
