Alex Karasulu wrote:
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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.
OK, I followed the help message reported by MVN , so we should add this
information in the message.
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
Well, I continued to do some test ....
I thought that the service installation used the default configuration
for Felix, but I figured out just now that the installer creates an
empty "bundle" directory and no "config.properties" file. So Felix
doesn't use the auto.start property and nothing is started with the
service instance.
If you use the auto.start property then you can see the usual messages
in the opened console.
I copied the default configuration we have in felix.main, adding the
required bundles in the bundle directory.
The problem is that you have to set the full path to the bundles (i.e.
file:///C:/Programmi/felix-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT/bundle/org.apache.felix.shell-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
)
otherwise Felix is not able to cache them) and this may cause problems
to the installer, a relative path should be better but it doesn't work
so far.
In order to see the messages on the console you have to clear the
redirect Stdout property in the logging tab of the Felix service
properties (launched by Tray Monitor).
Other problems are related to the synchronization between the Felix
service property panel and the actual service.
It seems that the panel is only synchronized at the start up, and
subsequent changes are not monitored correctly by the panel.
For instance, if you stop the service closing the console window, the
Tray menu is not updated as well as the buttons in the general tab of
the property. Anyway the status of the service in the Windows services
control panel works fine.
The same is true for the property "allow the service to interact with
the desktop", its modification, applied on the Tray Monitor property
panel don't have any effect ... but if you do the same changes on the
Windows service panel they work.
Regarding the search path for the bundle directory, you set
"-Dfelix.home=C:\Programmi\felix-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT" among the Java options,
is this property used by Felix?
regards,
francesco
ps:
a part of these small inconsistencies the services works fine ;-)
