The other thing that might be good to investigate is how Tomcat does
things. When I made the last installer I just started from Tomcat's
windows installer. They run as a service now, so you may be able to
just borrow their code and customize for GeoServer.
I think Jetty might also run better as a service these days, and they
may just use the java service wrapper directly. Would be good to
investigate how they're doing things.
Chris
Mike Pumphrey wrote:
Hi all. I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on getting GeoServer to be
better integrated on the Windows platform. Currently, GeoServer is
started and stopped by command-line shortcuts accessed via the Start
Menu. A result of this is that as long as GS is running, there is a
persistent command line window. The window is handy for debugging, but
not good for much else. Closing that window shuts down GS. This is
sub-optimal, and can be improved.
I would like to see GS run as a service, like Tomcat or any other
program that is on without being launched. Being more tightly
integrated with the OS makes for better management (services are
familiar to a Windows SysAdmin) and a better user experience.
In the past, I've used srvany.exe to force a program to act as a
service, but that's a) a little cheesy and b) might have licensing
issues. I think we can do better. I have seen (but never used) a tool
called Java Service Wrapper (wrapper.tanukisoftware.org) which appears
to do exactly this. I would appreciate anyone's suggestions.
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
Outreach Engineer
The Open Planning Project
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