On 10/2/06, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When it comes to futzing w/ the endorsed dirs I would rather have
> it in the up front and in my face via a script than have some cute
> code forking and setting things behind the scenes.
I couldn't agree more. I dislike Java forking Java more than I
dislike using shell scripts to start Java.
My biggest potential problem with forking is that the way I usually
set up a server process is to launch it into the background and record
the process ID to a file. If the original process immediately
launches a new process and quits, then I may not know what the actual
server process ID is and I may not be able to effectively kill it
later. It's less problematic since you can shut down with the console
or shutdown JAR, but still annoying.
Thanks,
Aaron
