RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1]

I've submitted a contrib. (windows.zip) to the JIRA issue/ticket 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292.  

The zip contains everything needed to run Cassandra as a Windows Service. It 
should be unzipped under the contrib directory. It includes an Ant build script 
and unit test. I've included in the bin directory everything needed to use it 
and building it is not technically necessary. 

Items to note:

* Uses Apache Procrun 
* Simple service.bat file to install/remove service (>service install) 
* Binaries included for 32 bit and 64 bit 
* Configuration utility included (cassandraw.exe) 
* Tested against Cassandra 0.6.1 and 0.6.3 
* Tested on XP (32bit), W7 (64bit) and WS2008 R1/R2 (64bit) 

Please review the README.txt file.  Hopefully this can be included as a contrib 
in a future release.

Regards,
Todd

-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 6:59 AM

To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

If you'd like to get it included in the Cassandra tree, submitting it
to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292 would be a good
start.

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
 wrote:
> Apache's Procrun is a "real windows service" similar to the one from Tanuki
> Software.  In regards to batch files, they are not used by Procrun in any
> way.  The batch file I created simply makes installing and removing the
> service super easy. I've used the Tanuki Java Wrapper Service before and it
> also works very nicely.  However, since Cassandra is an Apache project, it
> seemed most appropriate to go ahead and use a Windows service runner from
> Apache and to avoid any possible licensing or bundling issues, especially
> since I'd like to see it included as a contrib.  And, Procrun has been used
> for years by various Apache project with Apache Tomcat probably being the
> most famous.  Regardless, the Tanuki runner works well.
>
>
>
> Todd
>
>
>
> PS: I believe the community version of the Java Serviced Wrapper from Tanuki
> is GPL v2, but I could be wrong.  Their licensing is a mix of
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Richard Grossman [mailto:richie...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 3:37 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
>
>
>
> Hello
>
> Why not using Java Wrapper Service?
> http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp
> You can configure any java process as real windows services instead of batch
> files
>
> Richard
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
>  wrote:
>
> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I've read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
>
>
>
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>
>
>
> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>
>
>
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>
>
>
> As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache's Procrun
> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
> write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the
> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've
> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>
>
> 1.   Has anyone else already done this work?
>
> 2.   If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it
> back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev
> team or the user community?
>
>
>
> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>
>
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



-- 
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com

Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Jonathan Ellis]

If you'd like to get it included in the Cassandra tree, submitting it
to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292 would be a good
start.

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
 wrote:
> Apache’s Procrun is a “real windows service” similar to the one from Tanuki
> Software.  In regards to batch files, they are not used by Procrun in any
> way.  The batch file I created simply makes installing and removing the
> service super easy. I’ve used the Tanuki Java Wrapper Service before and it
> also works very nicely.  However, since Cassandra is an Apache project, it
> seemed most appropriate to go ahead and use a Windows service runner from
> Apache and to avoid any possible licensing or bundling issues, especially
> since I’d like to see it included as a contrib.  And, Procrun has been used
> for years by various Apache project with Apache Tomcat probably being the
> most famous.  Regardless, the Tanuki runner works well.
>
>
>
> Todd
>
>
>
> PS: I believe the community version of the Java Serviced Wrapper from Tanuki
> is GPL v2, but I could be wrong.  Their licensing is a mix of
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Richard Grossman [mailto:richie...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 3:37 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
>
>
>
> Hello
>
> Why not using Java Wrapper Service?
> http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp
> You can configure any java process as real windows services instead of batch
> files
>
> Richard
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
>  wrote:
>
> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I’ve read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
>
>
>
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>
>
>
> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>
>
>
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>
>
>
> As it didn’t look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache’s Procrun
> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
> write a batch script and a simple “WindowsService” class to accomplish the
> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I’ve
> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>
>
> 1.   Has anyone else already done this work?
>
> 2.   If not, I wouldn’t mind sharing the code/script or contributing it
> back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev
> team or the user community?
>
>
>
> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>
>
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



-- 
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1]

Apache's Procrun<http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html> is a "real 
windows service" similar to the one from Tanuki Software.  In regards to batch 
files, they are not used by Procrun in any way.  The batch file I created 
simply makes installing and removing the service super easy. I've used the 
Tanuki Java Wrapper Service before and it also works very nicely.  However, 
since Cassandra is an Apache project, it seemed most appropriate to go ahead 
and use a Windows service runner from Apache and to avoid any possible 
licensing or bundling issues, especially since I'd like to see it included as a 
contrib.  And, Procrun has been used for years by various Apache project with 
Apache Tomcat probably being the most famous.  Regardless, the Tanuki runner 
works well.

Todd

PS: I believe the community version of the Java Serviced Wrapper from Tanuki is 
GPL v2, but I could be wrong.  Their licensing is a mix of



From: Richard Grossman [mailto:richie...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 3:37 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

Hello

Why not using Java Wrapper Service?
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp
You can configure any java process as real windows services instead of batch 
files

Richard
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 
mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov>> wrote:
For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I 
went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.  I've 
read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows service, 
such as this one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html

I also found the following JIRA issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292

As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having some 
experience using Apache's Procrun 
(http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and 
write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the 
task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in 
CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script, it 
is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've installed 
Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 
Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other version of Windows 
(2K, 2K3).

Questions:

1.   Has anyone else already done this work?
2.   If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it 
back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team 
or the user community?

Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed source/binary 
distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch script and 
associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted to a Cassandra 
community site (is there one?).

Todd

Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Richard Grossman]

Hello

Why not using Java Wrapper Service?
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp
You can configure any java process as real windows services instead of batch
files

Richard

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 <
twkochhei...@bpa.gov> wrote:

>  For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such,
> I went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I’ve read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
>
> *
> http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html*
>
> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>
> 
> *https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292*
>
> As it didn’t look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache’s Procrun (*
> http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html*),
> I decided to go ahead and write a batch script and a simple “WindowsService”
> class to accomplish the task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to
> public methods in CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with
> the batch script, it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At
> this point, I’ve installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit),
> Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work
> fine on other version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>
> Questions:
>
>
>1. Has anyone else already done this work?
>2. If not, I wouldn’t mind sharing the code/script or contributing it
>back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev
>team or the user community?
>
>
> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
>
>

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1]

Yes, I have had success starting Cassandra using the CassandraDeamon class and 
Procrun, but stopping it was slightly problematic.   I ran into several 
problems:


 1.  I could not get Procrun to start Cassandra (via CassandraDeamon class) 
when using "JVM" mode.  You have to use "JAVA" mode in that case.  One of the 
downside of using "JAVA" mode is that the Cassandra process will show up as 
"java.exe" instead of something like "Cassandra.exe".  Not a big deal, but 
annoying!
 2.  When running in "JAVA" mode with Procrun, attempting to stop the service 
would cause the process to crash instead of cleanly exiting.  Even though 
Cassandra always restarted okay and this may never have caused a problem, for 
me this was simply not acceptable.

Since I wanted to use JVM mode and didn't want Cassandra to crash when 
attempting to stop it, a simple wrapper class around the CassandraDeamon class 
made everything work nicely.

Todd


From: Viktor Jevdokimov [mailto:viktor.jevdoki...@adform.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:15 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

I'm very interested in Windows Service, as x86 as x64 versions.

Have you any success to start Cassandra with Procrun alone?

Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:49 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

I've been running it in our development & test environments as a Windows 
Service without any problem.  I have not been too sophisticated in my 
configurations, but have been running some simple two node clusters.  At this 
point nothing has "yet" caused me any concern.

I have been working on a contrib. package for Cassandra and hope to have 
something submitted for review in the next week or so.  It will include 
everything needed to run Cassandra as a service.  In order to make Cassandra 
work well with Apache's Procrun<http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html>, 
I needed to write a simple WindowsService class.  In addition to the procrun 
executables for 32/64 bit platforms and a batch file to install and remove the 
service, I'll also be including an ant build file and associated unit tests.

Todd


From: Viktor Jevdokimov [mailto:viktor.jevdoki...@adform.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:39 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Cc: Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

Hi,

Can you share your experience with running Cassandra as a Windows Service?

Thank you,
Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:34 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I 
went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.  I've 
read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows service, 
such as this one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html

I also found the following JIRA issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292

As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having some 
experience using Apache's Procrun 
(http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and 
write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the 
task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in 
CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script, it 
is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've installed 
Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 
Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other version of Windows 
(2K, 2K3).

Questions:

1.   Has anyone else already done this work?
2.   If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it 
back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team 
or the user community?

Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed source/binary 
distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch script and 
associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted to a Cassandra 
community site (is there one?).

Todd

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Viktor Jevdokimov]

I'm very interested in Windows Service, as x86 as x64 versions.

Have you any success to start Cassandra with Procrun alone?

Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:49 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

I've been running it in our development & test environments as a Windows 
Service without any problem.  I have not been too sophisticated in my 
configurations, but have been running some simple two node clusters.  At this 
point nothing has "yet" caused me any concern.

I have been working on a contrib. package for Cassandra and hope to have 
something submitted for review in the next week or so.  It will include 
everything needed to run Cassandra as a service.  In order to make Cassandra 
work well with Apache's Procrun<http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html>, 
I needed to write a simple WindowsService class.  In addition to the procrun 
executables for 32/64 bit platforms and a batch file to install and remove the 
service, I'll also be including an ant build file and associated unit tests.

Todd


From: Viktor Jevdokimov [mailto:viktor.jevdoki...@adform.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:39 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Cc: Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

Hi,

Can you share your experience with running Cassandra as a Windows Service?

Thank you,
Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:34 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I 
went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.  I've 
read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows service, 
such as this one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html

I also found the following JIRA issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292

As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having some 
experience using Apache's Procrun 
(http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and 
write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the 
task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in 
CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script, it 
is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've installed 
Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 
Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other version of Windows 
(2K, 2K3).

Questions:

1. Has anyone else already done this work?
2. If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back 
to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or 
the user community?

Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed source/binary 
distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch script and 
associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted to a Cassandra 
community site (is there one?).

Todd

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1]

I've been running it in our development & test environments as a Windows 
Service without any problem.  I have not been too sophisticated in my 
configurations, but have been running some simple two node clusters.  At this 
point nothing has "yet" caused me any concern.

I have been working on a contrib. package for Cassandra and hope to have 
something submitted for review in the next week or so.  It will include 
everything needed to run Cassandra as a service.  In order to make Cassandra 
work well with Apache's Procrun<http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html>, 
I needed to write a simple WindowsService class.  In addition to the procrun 
executables for 32/64 bit platforms and a batch file to install and remove the 
service, I'll also be including an ant build file and associated unit tests.

Todd


From: Viktor Jevdokimov [mailto:viktor.jevdoki...@adform.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:39 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Cc: Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
Subject: RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

Hi,

Can you share your experience with running Cassandra as a Windows Service?

Thank you,
Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:34 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I 
went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.  I've 
read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows service, 
such as this one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html

I also found the following JIRA issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292

As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having some 
experience using Apache's Procrun 
(http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and 
write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the 
task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in 
CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script, it 
is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've installed 
Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 
Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other version of Windows 
(2K, 2K3).

Questions:

1.   Has anyone else already done this work?
2.   If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it 
back to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team 
or the user community?

Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed source/binary 
distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch script and 
associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted to a Cassandra 
community site (is there one?).

Todd

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Viktor Jevdokimov]

Hi,

Can you share your experience with running Cassandra as a Windows Service?

Thank you,
Viktor

From: Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1 [mailto:twkochhei...@bpa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:34 PM
To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org'
Subject: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I 
went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.  I've 
read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows service, 
such as this one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html

I also found the following JIRA issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292

As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having some 
experience using Apache's Procrun 
(http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and 
write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the 
task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in 
CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script, it 
is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've installed 
Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 
Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other version of Windows 
(2K, 2K3).

Questions:

1. Has anyone else already done this work?
2. If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back 
to the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or 
the user community?

Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed source/binary 
distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch script and 
associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted to a Cassandra 
community site (is there one?).

Todd

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1]

I'll put something together and submit it.  Thanks for the help.

Todd

-Original Message-
From: Gary Dusbabek [mailto:gdusba...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:49 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

Sure.  Please create a jira ticket
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA) and attach the files
you wish to contribute.  One of the committers (probably myself) will
review them and decide how to integrate them into the project.

If it's not too much trouble, an ant build script would be excellent
and would help to automate the process of generating testable builds.

Gary.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 17:31, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
 wrote:
> I agree that bitrot might be happen if all of the core Cassandra developers 
> are using Linux. Your suggestion of putting things in a contrib area where 
> curious (or desperate) parties suffering on the Windows platform could pick 
> it up seems like a reasonable place to start.  It might also be an 
> opportunity to increase the number of "application" developers using 
> Cassandra if Cassandra was slightly more approachable on the Windows platform.
>
> Any suggestions on next steps?
>
> Todd.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gary Dusbabek [mailto:gdusba...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
>
> IMO this is one of those things that would bitrot fairly quickly if it
> were not maintained.  It may be useful in contrib, where curious
> parties could pick it up, get it back in shape, and send in the
> changes to be committed.
>
> Judging by the sparse interest so far, this probably wouldn't be a
> good fit in core since there don't seem to be many (any?) cassandra
> developers who run windows.
>
> Gary.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:34, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
>  wrote:
>> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
>> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
>> I've read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
>> service, such as this one:
>>
>>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>>
>> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>>
>>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>>
>> As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
>> some experience using Apache's Procrun
>> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
>> write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the
>> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
>> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
>> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've
>> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
>> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
>> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else already done this work?
>> If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back to
>> the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or
>> the user community?
>>
>>
>> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
>> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
>> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
>> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Gary Dusbabek]

Sure.  Please create a jira ticket
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA) and attach the files
you wish to contribute.  One of the committers (probably myself) will
review them and decide how to integrate them into the project.

If it's not too much trouble, an ant build script would be excellent
and would help to automate the process of generating testable builds.

Gary.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 17:31, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
 wrote:
> I agree that bitrot might be happen if all of the core Cassandra developers 
> are using Linux. Your suggestion of putting things in a contrib area where 
> curious (or desperate) parties suffering on the Windows platform could pick 
> it up seems like a reasonable place to start.  It might also be an 
> opportunity to increase the number of "application" developers using 
> Cassandra if Cassandra was slightly more approachable on the Windows platform.
>
> Any suggestions on next steps?
>
> Todd.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gary Dusbabek [mailto:gdusba...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
>
> IMO this is one of those things that would bitrot fairly quickly if it
> were not maintained.  It may be useful in contrib, where curious
> parties could pick it up, get it back in shape, and send in the
> changes to be committed.
>
> Judging by the sparse interest so far, this probably wouldn't be a
> good fit in core since there don't seem to be many (any?) cassandra
> developers who run windows.
>
> Gary.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:34, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
>  wrote:
>> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
>> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
>> I've read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
>> service, such as this one:
>>
>>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>>
>> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>>
>>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>>
>> As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
>> some experience using Apache's Procrun
>> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
>> write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the
>> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
>> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
>> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've
>> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
>> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
>> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else already done this work?
>> If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back to
>> the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or
>> the user community?
>>
>>
>> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
>> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
>> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
>> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

RE: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1]

I agree that bitrot might be happen if all of the core Cassandra developers are 
using Linux. Your suggestion of putting things in a contrib area where curious 
(or desperate) parties suffering on the Windows platform could pick it up seems 
like a reasonable place to start.  It might also be an opportunity to increase 
the number of "application" developers using Cassandra if Cassandra was 
slightly more approachable on the Windows platform.

Any suggestions on next steps?

Todd. 

-Original Message-
From: Gary Dusbabek [mailto:gdusba...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:59 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

IMO this is one of those things that would bitrot fairly quickly if it
were not maintained.  It may be useful in contrib, where curious
parties could pick it up, get it back in shape, and send in the
changes to be committed.

Judging by the sparse interest so far, this probably wouldn't be a
good fit in core since there don't seem to be many (any?) cassandra
developers who run windows.

Gary.


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:34, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
 wrote:
> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I've read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
>
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>
> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>
> As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache's Procrun
> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
> write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the
> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I've
> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>
> Questions:
>
>
> Has anyone else already done this work?
> If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back to
> the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or
> the user community?
>
>
> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Ben Standefer]

"For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows."

I don't think it would be difficult to argue the business case for running
Cassandra on Linux.  It's still a young project and everybody in IRC and the
mailing list is running it on Linux.  You should really re-think whatever
factors are requiring you to run it on Windows and try to overcome those
obstacles.

-Ben



On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Gary Dusbabek  wrote:

> IMO this is one of those things that would bitrot fairly quickly if it
> were not maintained.  It may be useful in contrib, where curious
> parties could pick it up, get it back in shape, and send in the
> changes to be committed.
>
> Judging by the sparse interest so far, this probably wouldn't be a
> good fit in core since there don't seem to be many (any?) cassandra
> developers who run windows.
>
> Gary.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:34, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
>  wrote:
> > For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such,
> I
> > went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> > I’ve read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a
> Windows
> > service, such as this one:
> >
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
> >
> > I also found the following JIRA issue:
> >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
> >
> > As it didn’t look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and
> having
> > some experience using Apache’s Procrun
> > (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead
> and
> > write a batch script and a simple “WindowsService” class to accomplish
> the
> > task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> > CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch
> script,
> > it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I’ve
> > installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64
> bit)
> > and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
> > version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> >
> > Has anyone else already done this work?
> > If not, I wouldn’t mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back
> to
> > the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team
> or
> > the user community?
> >
> >
> > Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> > source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the
> batch
> > script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be
> posted
> > to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
> >
> > Todd
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service

[Gary Dusbabek]

IMO this is one of those things that would bitrot fairly quickly if it
were not maintained.  It may be useful in contrib, where curious
parties could pick it up, get it back in shape, and send in the
changes to be committed.

Judging by the sparse interest so far, this probably wouldn't be a
good fit in core since there don't seem to be many (any?) cassandra
developers who run windows.

Gary.


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:34, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
 wrote:
> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows.  As such, I
> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I’ve read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
>
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
>
> I also found the following JIRA issue:
>
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
>
> As it didn’t look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache’s Procrun
> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
> write a batch script and a simple “WindowsService” class to accomplish the
> task.  The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple.  In combination with the batch script,
> it is very easy to install and remove the service.  At this point, I’ve
> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit).  It should work fine on other
> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
>
> Questions:
>
>
> Has anyone else already done this work?
> If not, I wouldn’t mind sharing the code/script or contributing it back to
> the project.  Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev team or
> the user community?
>
>
> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables.  Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
>