On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:13 -0300, Inove Infoshop Ltda wrote: > Hi, > > Shouldn't TC install under (not manufacturer supported any more) Windows NT 4? > > > I�m using a product called DeskNow and it uses Tomcat 5.x. Unfortunately (or > not), ver 2.6 of the product started using ver 5.x of Tomcat. I use a retired > WinNT box as the DeskNow Server, but, when upgrading to version 2.6, > service registration failed with the following message on Dr. Watson: > > Title: desknow.exe > Exception: access violation (0x00000005), Address 0x77f92a66
Well, tomcat itself is a pure-java application. As such, as long as you have a working java virtual machine you can run tomcat, regardless of what the operating system is. I'm 99.99% sure that it will still work on NT as a stand-alone program, so there's always that option as long as you don't absolutely *have* to run it as a windows service. [1] But java doesn't support the concept of a "windows service" natively. Tomcat does that via the commons-daemon library that provides some native code to do that on various platforms; see http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon. I would suggest investigating what version of commons-daemon your Tomcat instance uses, then have a look at what platforms that version of commons-daemon supports. If the latest release has dropped support for NT then you might be able to install an old release of commons-daemon over what DeskNow bundles. There's also the possibility that the crash is not anything to do with Tomcat, but instead in some custom code provided by DeskNow. You said that "service registration failed" but I'm not sure exactly what that means. Are you sure the crash is occurring within some part of tomcat or commons-daemon? [1] Of course if DeskNow is just a java application, then you could also run it on Linux :-) Cheers, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
