On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Jack Cai wrote:
Thanks a lot Donald!
So if we make this as a plugin (well, it's really a windows exe), we
will not be able to install it to the bin directory, right? If this
is the case, then it might not be conveniet for the users to control
the service using command line.
You can build a plugin that unpacks something to the bin directory on
installation. The geronimo-boilerplate plugin (under assemblies) does
nothing else. Most or all of the *-deployer plugins unpack a schema
into the schema directory. You end up with 2 copies of the stuff in
the server (one in the car, one in the unpacked location) but I
haven't worried about this.
Another option is to create different assembly configuration for
different OS. This is very easy to achieve by adding more pom.xml to
the assemblies directory. This can also help to eliminate *.sh for
Windows assemblies and *.bat for Unix/Linux assemblies. But I guess
creating OS-specific build is something that Geronimo has been
avoiding to do?
I would prefer to avoid this complication.
thanks
david jencks
- Jack Cai
2008/11/4 Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sounds like a good feature to consider for 2.2.
Maybe we could offer it as an optional plugin, since the current zip/
tar files are per assembly, which means you would be including it
for Unix/Linux/Mac users too. It would also allow us to offer a JSW
3.2.0 (BSD licensed) version of the plugin, for users who wanted it
instead of the procrun implementation.
-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
