"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 <gdusba...@gmail.com> 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 > <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: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > >
