Excuse the late response guys. More inline ...
Richard S. Hall wrote:
> I think Alex would be the one to answer these questions, since he is
> the one that got this working in the first place. Sounds pretty cool,
> though.
>
> -> richard
>
> Francesco Furfari wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've quickly tested the building of Felix installers in Windows .
>> This time I've installed the required software that are not managed
>> by the building process.
>> You have to install the Inno Setp 5 software (www.jrsoftware.org) and
>> the QuickStart Pack.
>
I should note this somewhere.
>> Notice that MVN searches these tools in a not localized directory
>> "Program Files" while Inno Setup installation uses
>> the default locale name ("Programmi" in Italian windows systems).
>> It's sufficient move the Inno Setup directory in the right place.
>> I tried to see where to modify this reference but I was not able to
>> find it quickly :(
>
Oh boy yeah this needs to change but I do check the path for the
executable too. So if it's on the path it will get picked up.
>>
>> Well, after that I've installed the Felix service and it works fine
>> with a nice interface and tray icon to configure it :).
>
Cool I love the tray icon thingy too myself.
>>
>> Is there any documentation about the Felix service?
>
The Felix service is really using the jakarta daemon procrun service
manager which tomcat uses as well. Here's where you can read a bit more
about it:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/procrun.html
>>
>> I was thinking that allowing the service to interact with desktop
>> enabled the use of the shell.
>> Any hint on how to configure it?
>
Hmmmm no sorry this is not what you think it is for. This will allow
the windows service to pop up windows on the desktop or to put something
into the system tray. It's a low level Windows aspect that determines
whether or not the service can create visible objects in the windowing
system.
Alex
