On 01/09/2010 20:04, Gorissen D. wrote:
I was wondering about the reason why Taverna Server currently does not run on Windows. I had assumed it was Java based but somewhere there must be code that ties it to the platform (some kind of process forking code?). It would be interesting to get a bit of background about this restriction and when windows support can be expected (maybe with the move to OSGI?). The roadmap currently does not mention it.
The restriction is mainly because we found the problem very late in testing and decided to push ahead with getting a release available rather than holding off while I hunted down the issue[*]. It's probably something very silly like directory separator characters. I don't know if things will work nicely (after the obvious issues are addressed) when running something like Tomcat as a Windows Service. That's because services run with quite different environments to users.
The reason I ask is that our use case requires orchestrating a number of windows-only tools. Wrapping these in a webservice/VM would be overkill it seems.
I quite understand. Donal.[* I don't have any Windows systems on my desk, so hunting is not quite trivial. ;-) ]
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