My apologies. I am not an NT guru (or user). I assumed jboss was being
started in the normal way, just from a service.
BTW, why can't you just run cmd with '/C a_batch_file.bat' as an argument as a
service?
Tom
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> There would be no batch file if you are starting the program as a service.
> Batch files cannot be started as NT services. You have to write a C/C++ prog
> with an embedded JVM to run Java code as a service.
>
> The one fix is to make sure that everything looked for is found by
> classpath,
> ie files are found as resources, etc, and use -Djava.classpath=<all your
> needed
> paths>
>
> Russell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:28 PM
> To: jBoss
> Subject: Re: [jBoss-User] Starting as a service under NT?
>
>
> Errrmmmmm... I hate pointing the obvious out to competent people, but how
> about
> 'cd %JBOSS_HOME%' at the top of your batch file?
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have recently replaced Weblogic with jBoss in a high profile
> > application. We are very pleased with our results so far.
> >
> > We are preparing to enter testing with our application, and we have
> > been spending the past few days configuring our testing environment. We
> > need to make jBoss start as a service under 2000.
> >
> > There are many packages around the web that promise to 'start any
> > executable as a service', and we have one of these up and running, using
> > a batch file to start jBoss. But there is a very elegant package for
> > starting java programs as services we would like to use, located at
> >
> > http://www.roeschter.com/index.html
> >
> > The problem we are having is that jBoss wants to start from a
> > particular directory (the jBoss/bin directory), and we can't really
> > control this when starting as a service. We get a little farther when
> > we specify -Duser.dir=<path_to_jBoss_bin>, but now we fail when
> > instantdb is looking for a file.
> >
> > I guess the question I'm asking could be phrased a couple different
> > ways: 1) Is there a way to start jBoss in such a manner that it doesn't
> > care where you are launching it from? if not, 2) is there a way to
> > specify (via a registry entry or something) the working directory for a
> > service under NT/2000?
> >
> > We are a group of pretty competent developers, and can contribute our
> > work back to jBoss... based on the example from the service-starting
> > package above, we have a 'wrapper' that implements stoppable and starts
> > jBoss... between that and the Free .exe file from that site, it would
> > make a nice add-on for jBoss when running in the (crippled) windows
> > NT/2000 environment.
> >
> >
> > -David Bock
> > Software Engineer,
> > FGM, inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > List Help?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> List Help?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> List Help?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List Help?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
