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*<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*<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*<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 > > > > > >