The problem is not really with JBoss wanting to start in a particular directory. The
problem is that some of the add-ons configurations are specified with respect to the
current directory. InstantDB is one such example. Instead of treating the directory
paths as relative to a classpath resource they are paths relative to the current
directory.
Probably the simplest solution is to patch the service tool to allow for the
specification
of a starting directory. Or look at another Java service tool that already has that
capability like this one: http://www.eworksmart.com/jnt/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "jBoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:27 PM
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.
> >
> >
> >
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