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Ian Beaumont commented on DAEMON-258:
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The issue is, users would always have to press "refresh" after they press
"start" (otherwise they have no idea the application has started successfully).
Maybe not a "big deal" to you, but that isn't how the majority of other
services work in Windows and therefore users would need "special" training that
they need to do this.
Start "SQL Server database service", or "Oracle Database service" - and the
service will not mark itself as "started" until it has completed successfully.
If it does take a long time to start, "Windows" warns about this - that the
service hasn't started in the expected period of time.
Can we at least leave the issue open, as someone may either request the same
feature or come up with another way of implementing it.
> prunsrv to block until start method returns
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> Key: DAEMON-258
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-258
> Project: Commons Daemon
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Procrun
> Affects Versions: 1.0.10
> Environment: Windows all versions
> Reporter: Ian Beaumont
> Assignee: Mladen Turk
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.0.11
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> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> Currently, when starting a windows service from the service control panel
> based on prunsrv using the JVM.dll the start method is called in a separate
> thread. Upon calling this thread, the service is marked as "started" in the
> service control panel. This is confusing, as if something goes wrong in the
> program start-up sequence (e.g. a database connection is unavailable) then
> the program will fail to start successfully but the user will not get any
> indication of this (they have to press "refresh" in the windows services
> window to see the service failed to start).
> It would be better to have an option to report the "service" as "starting"
> while the "start" method is running and only when the method returns, mark
> the service as "started" or "stopped" depending on a return code from the
> "start" method.
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