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





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