Totally agree with that. 2008/11/2 Jack Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi all, > > I learnt that some of our users are interested in running Geronimo as a > Windows service. Although there is already an option provided by the Java > Service Wrapper, they are more interested in seeing something similar to > what is provided by Tomcat. I searched the mail achive and found this old > discussion [1], which didn't reach a decision. Provided that we can easily > take the technology from Tomcat [2], I'm keen to implement this for > Geronimo. The advantage of using Apache Commons procrun is that - > > 1. Out-of-box experience, no need to download and install a third party > component; > 2. Tray icon that further improves usability. > > Eventually we would think to provide this "run as a service" capability for > Linux/Unix platforms, but Windows would be a good start. What do others > think? I'd volunteer to do this job if you think it's worth doing. > > -Jack Cai > > [1] http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=591936&framed=y&skin=134 > [2] http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html > >