Thanks David! I'll try the plugin approach then. - Jack
2008/11/6 David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Jack Cai wrote: > > Thanks a lot Donald! > > So if we make this as a plugin (well, it's really a windows exe), we will > not be able to install it to the bin directory, right? If this is the case, > then it might not be conveniet for the users to control the service using > command line. > > > > You can build a plugin that unpacks something to the bin directory on > installation. The geronimo-boilerplate plugin (under assemblies) does > nothing else. Most or all of the *-deployer plugins unpack a schema into > the schema directory. You end up with 2 copies of the stuff in the server > (one in the car, one in the unpacked location) but I haven't worried about > this. > > > > Another option is to create different assembly configuration for different > OS. This is very easy to achieve by adding more pom.xml to the assemblies > directory. This can also help to eliminate *.sh for Windows assemblies and > *.bat for Unix/Linux assemblies. But I guess creating OS-specific build is > something that Geronimo has been avoiding to do? > > > I would prefer to avoid this complication. > > thanks > david jencks > > > > - Jack Cai > > > 2008/11/4 Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sounds like a good feature to consider for 2.2. >> >> Maybe we could offer it as an optional plugin, since the current zip/tar >> files are per assembly, which means you would be including it for >> Unix/Linux/Mac users too. It would also allow us to offer a JSW 3.2.0 (BSD >> licensed) version of the plugin, for users who wanted it instead of the >> procrun implementation. >> >> >> >> -Donald >> >> >> Jack Cai wrote: >> >>> 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 < >>> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=591936&framed=y&skin=134> >>> [2] http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html >>> >>> > >
