BTW - Since you have a CLA on file, I just added your 2 ids (caijunj,
greensight) to the geronimo-contributor group in JIRA, which will allow
you to assign items to yourself to work on.
-Donald
Jack Cai wrote:
Hi all,
I learnt that some of our users are interested in running Geronimo as a
Windows service. Although there is already an option provided by the
Java Service Wrapper, they are more interested in seeing something
similar to what is provided by Tomcat. I searched the mail achive and
found this old discussion [1], which didn't reach a decision. Provided
that we can easily take the technology from Tomcat [2], I'm keen to
implement this for Geronimo. The advantage of using Apache Commons
procrun is that -
1. Out-of-box experience, no need to download and install a third party
component;
2. Tray icon that further improves usability.
Eventually we would think to provide this "run as a service" capability
for Linux/Unix platforms, but Windows would be a good start. What do
others think? I'd volunteer to do this job if you think it's worth doing.
-Jack Cai
[1]
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=591936&framed=y&skin=134
<http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=591936&framed=y&skin=134>
[2] http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html
